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Gayest vs Delightful - What's the difference?

gayest | delightful |

As adjectives the difference between gayest and delightful

is that gayest is (gay) while delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.

gayest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (gay)

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    Gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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    delightful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * delightfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
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  • *:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.