B1 very pleased:
a delighted audience
Pat was delighted with her new house.
[ + that ] I'm absolutely delighted that you can come.
[ + to infinitive ] We'd be delighted to come to dinner on Friday.
More examples
- The audience was clearly delighted with the performance.
- She said she didn't care about it, but I believe she was secretly delighted.
- Le Tissier was delighted when he received his England call-up.
- The whole school is delighted about Joel's success in the championships.
- If you'd care to bring your young man along too, we should be delighted to meet him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- ecstatic
- elated
- enraptured
- incandescent
- jolly
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- made up
delightedly
adverb uk
/dɪˈlaɪ.tɪd.li/ us
/dɪˈlaɪ.t̬ɪd.li/
