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Webster 1828 Edition


Undelightful

UNDELIGHTFUL

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Adj.
Not giving delight or great pleasure.

Definition 2024


undelightful

undelightful

English

Adjective

undelightful (comparative more undelightful, superlative most undelightful)

  1. 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.