As adjectives the difference between delightful and loathsome
is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while loathsome is highly offensive; sickening, abominable.
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’.
loathsome
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
highly offensive; sickening, abominable
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.
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