Delight vs. Happy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delight and Happy
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Delight
Great pleasure; joy
The proud parents' faces beamed with delight.
Happy
Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
They are happy to see me doing well
Melissa came in looking happy and excited
We're just happy that he's still alive
Delight
Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment
The vacation was a delight for the whole family.
Happy
Fortunate and convenient
He had the happy knack of making people like him
Delight
To take great pleasure or joy
Delights in taking long walks.
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Happy
Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random
They tended to be grenade-happy
Delight
To give great pleasure or joy
An old movie that still delights.
Happy
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy
A happy child.
The happiest day of my life.
Delight
To please greatly
A movie that will delight all audiences.
Happy
Cheerful; willing
Happy to help.
Delight
Joy; pleasure.
Happy
Characterized by good luck
A happy sequence of events.
Delight
Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
Happy
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous
A happy turn of phrase.
Delight
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
A beautiful landscape delights the eye.
Happy
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination
Trigger-happy.
Delight
(intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.
Happy
Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination
Money-happy.
Clothes-happy.
Delight
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
A fool hath no delight in understanding.
Happy
Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
Music makes me feel happy.
Delight
That which gives great pleasure or delight.
Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.
Happy
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
Delight
Licentious pleasure; lust.
Happy
Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
Yes, I am happy with the decision.
Delight
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.
Inventions to delight the taste.
Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
Happy
(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
A happy coincidence
Delight
To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; - followed by an infinitive, or by in.
Love delights in praises.
I delight to do thy will, O my God.
Happy
(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
Slaphappy, trigger-happy
Delight
A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction;
His delight to see her was obvious to all
Happy
Dexterous, ready, skilful.
Delight
Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;
A joy to behold
The pleasure of his company
The new car is a delight
Happy
Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
Delight
Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;
These colors please the senses
A pleasing sensation
Happy
A happy event, thing, person, etc.
Delight
Take delight in;
He delights in his granddaughter
Happy
Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
Delight
Hold spellbound
Happy
Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
Happy
Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
Happy
Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
The learned is happy Nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Happy
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
Happy
Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;
A happy smile
Spent many happy days on the beach
A happy marriage
Happy
Experiencing pleasure or joy;
Happy you are here
Pleased with the good news
Happy
Marked by good fortune;
A felicitous life
A happy outcome
Happy
Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;
Felt content with her lot
Quite happy to let things go on as they are
Happy
Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
Happy
Well expressed and to the point;
A happy turn of phrase
A few well-chosen words
A felicitous comment
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