Word Meanings - DELIGHTSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELIGHTSOME)

• Luscious
• Sweet
• delicious
• sugary
• honied
• delightful
• toothsome
• delightsome

Related words: (words related to DELIGHTSOME)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• HONIED
  See HONEYED
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• LUSCIOUS
  1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense;
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• HONITON LACE
  . A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.
• SWEETWEED
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• SWEETHEARTING
  Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
• DELIGHTFUL
  Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton. Syn. -- Delicious; charming. See Delicious. -- De*light"ful*ly, adv. -- De*light"ful*ness, n.
• SWEET-SOP
  A kind of custard apple . See under Custard.
• DELIGHTSOME
  Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.
• SWEETWATER
  A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
• DELICIOUSNESS
  1. The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. 2. Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.
• CINCHONIC
  Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
• SULPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain
• CINCHONINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
• PYTHONIST
  A conjurer; a diviner.
• SIPHONIATA
  See SIPHONATA
• CINCHONIZE
  To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
• PYROTHONIDE
  A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.
• CINCHONIDINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
• PHOSPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.
• CINCHONISM
  A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.