Emotions
Synonyms for delight
Synonyms for delight: delectation and joy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for delight
Interchangeable with delight in this sense
Audited under delight's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one delight carries in that sense.
- delectationnoun, in the sense "a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name delight as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- joyjoy is a noun in the sense "a feeling of great happiness"
The first group is filed under delight's own sense. The second reaches delight from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
His delight to see her was obvious to all.
The true synonym
delectation
Same sentence, swapped: His delectation to see her was obvious to all.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- comfort
- warp
- whistle
Where delight turns up in the game
delight is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where delight is the trap
- entertainverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hold, in the sense "maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)", with delight sitting one tile away.
Play delight
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delight reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from emotions at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
delight is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.