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Webster 1828 Edition
Undelightful
UNDELIGHTFUL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
undelightful
undelightful
English
Adjective
undelightful (comparative more undelightful, superlative most undelightful)
- Not delightful.
- 1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I:
- Every trick that money can play with the most lavish abundance of water is here exhibited; nor is the sight of a jet d'eau, or the murmur of an artificial cascade, undelightful in a hot day, let the Nature-mongers say what they please.
- 1968, United States Department of the Interior, The Nation's River:
- However, ironically, it has also been pointed out that until the excess of nutrients in the upper estuary is eliminated, such clearing of the water could very possibly cause a great increase in the already disastrous algae blooms, by allowing sunlight to penetrate to greater depths and foster more production of this undelightful greenery.
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