Glitter vs Delight - What's the difference?
glitter | delight |
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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, title= Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
As nouns the difference between glitter and delight
is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while delight is joy; pleasure.As verbs the difference between glitter and delight
is that glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam while delight is to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.glitter
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court
Derived terms
* all that glitters is not golddelight
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.