Exultant vs Delight - What's the difference?
exultant | delight |
very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.
Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
As an adjective exultant
is very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.As a noun delight is
joy; pleasure.As a verb delight is
to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.exultant
English
Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* merry * happy * gay * ecstatic * content * joyful * cheerful * pleased * jovial * jubilant * triumphantAntonyms
* downcast * miserable * unhappydelight
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,
Derived terms
* undelight * delightfulVerb
(en verb)- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
