DELIGHTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delighted mean? 

• DELIGHTED (adjective)
  The adjective DELIGHTED has 2 senses:

1. greatly pleased

2. filled with wonder and delight

  Familiarity information: DELIGHTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELIGHTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatly pleased

Similar:

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with wonder and delight

Synonyms:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

And Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

White Fang was delighted with his mother's freedom.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I said I should be delighted to see her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I do not wonder Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he cannot put the card out of his hand."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance, and almost forgot Mr. Tilney while she talked to Miss Thorpe.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had not known before how much the beginnings and progress of vegetation had delighted her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On the other hand, along with his ease of expression, he displayed a lightness and facetiousness of thought that delighted her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These delighted to converse with me: they put many questions, and received such answers as I was able to return.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If you are married, then your mate may have delighted you with a surprise that you found touching.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)