I.
noun
1 feeling of great pleasure
ADJECTIVE
▪ great
▪ absolute , utter
▪ pure , sheer
▪ mischievous ( esp. BrE ), perverse
▪ childish , childlike
▪ girlish ( esp. BrE )
▪ evident , obvious
▪ aesthetic , sensory , sensual , spiritual , visual
▪
Flowering trees provide shade as well as visual ~.
VERB + DELIGHT
▪ express
▪ find , take
▪
She took evident ~ in frightening the children with horror stories.
▪ bring , give sb
▪ laugh with , scream with , squeal with
▪
Alice squealed with sheer ~ when she saw the monkeys.
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~ , with ~
▪
We danced around with childish ~.
▪ of ~
▪
She gave a whoop of ~ and dived into the water.
▪ to your ~
▪
To my great ~, they offered me the job.
▪ ~ at
▪
He expressed his ~ at seeing us all again.
▪ ~ in
▪
I find a perverse ~ in listening to traffic.
PHRASES
▪ a cry, gasp, squeal, etc. of ~
▪ much to sb's ~
▪
Much to the ~ of the crowd, the band came back and did three encores.
2 sth that gives great pleasure
ADJECTIVE
▪ real
▪ constant
▪
The baby was a constant ~ and source of amazement.
▪ unexpected
▪ culinary , gastronomic
▪ earthly
▪
He became deeply religious and turned away from earthly ~s.
VERB + DELIGHT
▪ explore , sample
▪ enjoy , savour/savor
▪
Savour the culinary ~s of Morocco.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ to
▪
The old lady's reminiscences were a continual ~ to Constance.
II.
verb
Delight is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ audience , ↑ fan