What is the meaning of delighted?

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verb

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to.
- usage: "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"
- synonyms: please, delight
Take delight in.
- usage: "he delights in his granddaughter"
- synonyms: delight, enjoy, revel
Hold spellbound.
- synonyms: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight

adjective

Greatly pleased.
Filled with wonder and delight.
- synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced

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