Delight vs. Happy — What's the Difference?

Great pleasure; joy

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment

Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment

Fortunate and convenient

To take great pleasure or joy

Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random

To give great pleasure or joy

Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy

To please greatly

Cheerful; willing

Joy; pleasure.

Characterized by good luck

Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination

(intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

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.

That which gives great pleasure or delight.

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

Licentious pleasure; lust.

Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.

(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.

To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; - followed by an infinitive, or by in.

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction;

Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;

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.

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Take delight in;

Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

Hold spellbound

Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

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.

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.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;

Experiencing pleasure or joy;

Marked by good fortune;

Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;

Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

Well expressed and to the point;