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Delightful vs Liefsome - What's the difference?

delightful | liefsome |

As adjectives the difference between delightful and liefsome

is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while liefsome is agreeable; pleasing; delightful.

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’.

    • liefsome

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) (Scottish)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, poetic, or, archaic) Agreeable; pleasing; delightful.
  • *1854 , Henry Howard Surrey (Earl of), Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Robert Bell, Poetical works of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey :
    • So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight, And with a kiss, methinks I say, 'Welcome, my lord, my knight; [...]'

    Related terms

    * (l)