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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDELIGHT

undelight  [ˌʌndɪˈlaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDELIGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Undelight is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDELIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of undelight in the English dictionary

The definition of undelight in the dictionary is the absence of delight.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDELIGHT


alight
əˈlaɪt
daylight
ˈdeɪˌlaɪt
delight
dɪˈlaɪt
enlight
ɪnˈlaɪt
flight
flaɪt
highlight
ˈhaɪˌlaɪt
impolite
ˌɪmpəˈlaɪt
light
laɪt
lite
laɪt
mislight
ˌmɪsˈlaɪt
overlight
ˌəʊvəˈlaɪt
polite
pəˈlaɪt
relight
riːˈlaɪt
satellite
ˈsætəˌlaɪt
slight
slaɪt
spotlight
ˈspɒtˌlaɪt
superlight
ˌsuːpərˈlaɪt
superpolite
ˌsuːpərpəˈlaɪt
twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt
ultralight
ˈʌltrəˈlaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDELIGHT

undefoliated
undeformed
undeify
undelayed
undelaying
undelectable
undelegated
undelete
undeleted
undeliberate
undelightful
undeliverable
undelivered
undeluded
undemanding
undemocratic
undemonstrable
undemonstrative
undemonstratively
undemonstrativeness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDELIGHT

back-up light
backlight
bright
candlelight
come to light
flashlight
green light
headlight
in-flight
in mid-flight
limelight
moonlight
plight
put to flight
red light
searchlight
skylight
starlight
the spotlight
Very light
white light

Synonyms and antonyms of undelight in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «undelight» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDELIGHT

Find out the translation of undelight to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of undelight from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «undelight» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

undelight
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

undelight
570 millions of speakers

English

undelight
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

undelight
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

undelight
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

undelight
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

undelight
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

undelight
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

undelight
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undelight
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

undelight
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

undelight
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

undelight
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Undelight
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

undelight
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

undelight
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Undelight
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

undelight
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

undelight
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

undelight
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

undelight
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

undelight
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

undelight
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

undelight
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

undelight
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undelight
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of undelight

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDELIGHT»

The term «undelight» is used very little and occupies the 160.368 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDELIGHT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about undelight

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDELIGHT»

Discover the use of undelight in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to undelight and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The future life, altered [by lady J.F. Wilde] from the tr. ...
... for every one undergoes changes according to the quality of his love and faith ; so that one is in his brightness and delight when another is in his obscurity and undelight, and this at the same time and within the same society. The changes in  ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, lady Jane Francesca Wilde, 1858
2
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence
Since, as was said above, the affections of heaven and the concupiscences of hell are diametrically opposite to each other, it is manifest that the delight of heaven is such an undelight in hell, that they do not bear it; and, on the contrary, that the ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, 1840
3
Clare's Lyric: John Clare and Three Modern Poets
... throughout The Waggoner, makes the story plain: 'wars | turn happiness to stone' (24). This is what has happened in Festubert, as the last stanza explains: ' and all the old delight is cursed | redoubling present undelight' (29). his 'old delight', ...
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, 2014
4
The London Mercury
I saw her, ghastly as a tyrant's dream, Perch on a trembling pyramid of night, Beneath which earth and all her realms pavilioned lay In visions of the dawning undelight, (Hellas, U. 940—945.) Undelight I What a word ! and what a way to ...
Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, 1923
5
Records of Yoga
The old method of forcing undelight in asiddhi on the system from without through the pranic physicality aided by intellectual suggestions and throwing it out from within by the tapas and the buddhi. Pranic manas in its physicality is still ...
Aurobindo Ghose, 2001
6
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One ...
I saw her ghastly as a tyrant's dream, Perch on the trembling pyramid of night, Beneath which earth and all her realms pavilioned lay In visions of the dawning undelight. Who shall impede her flight ! Who rob her of her prey ? Voice without.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1871
7
The English reader: or, Pieces in prose and verse : selected ...
... cannot be undelight- ful*; since the blessing which every month brings along with it', is a fresh instance of the wisdom* and bounty of that Providence', which regulates the glories of the year*. We glow as we contemplate* ; We feel a ...
Lindley Murray, Montgomery Robert Bartlett, 1827
8
Decadent Verse: An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900
And since he cannot spend and use aright 66 5 The little time here given him in trust, But wasteth it in weary undelight Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust, He naturally claimeth to inherit The everlasting Future, that his merit 670 May have ...
Caroline Blyth, 2011
9
The Synthesis of Yoga
It is more difficult to realise that existence and undelight of existence cannot go together. What we call misery, grief, pain, absence of delight is again merely a surface wave of the delight of existence which takes on to our mental experience  ...
Sri Aurobindo, Sa Ashram, 1992
10
A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke: Victorian and Edwardian ...
Yet this is no Christian message since the waste of present time 'in weary undelight'70 is predicated as the cause of any illusions of eternal life. Canto XIV describes a silent environment where the message is of neither God nor devil, but of ...
Lawrence Alfred Phillips, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDELIGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term undelight is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How was George Osborne's budget performance? Our columnists …
... up to the charge of being a deficit nutter and a mad shrink-the-stater. Undelighted by the Labour attack lines and the poor polling, today he changes his target. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
2
Jean-Pierre Braganza
... in a print used on angle-sleeved loose tops and pants, a flyby of aviators, and more abstractly, in the gleaming hardware on some undelightful chokers. «Style.com, Feb 15»
3
How Elizabeth Gaskell Saved Charlotte Brontë's Reputation
Poet Matthew Arnold wrote, "Miss Brontë has written a hideous, undelightful, convulsed, constricted novel... one of the most utterly disagreeable books I've ever ... «ILAB, Nov 14»
4
Fiction review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing,' by Mira Jacob
... displeasure by cooking French or American food that leaves the house smelling “insistently of American restaurants, of heavy meat undelighted by real spices. «Dallas Morning News, Aug 14»
5
The Writer Behind @CondeElevator Reveals Herself
On August 11, 2011, the writer hastily signed off, sensing that the Powers that Be in 4 Times Square were undelighted. But in light of the recent reveal of the ... «New York Magazine, Feb 14»
6
Charlotte Brontë: Why Villette is better than Jane Eyre
Matthew Arnold called Villette “a hideous, undelightful, convulsed, constricted novel”. Convulsed and constricted it is: convulsed by Lucy's love, first for the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»
7
'The Lone Ranger' movie review: A violent, grave, goofy, too-long …
... director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp, "The Lone Ranger" is a mostly undelightful western that focuses on Tonto, the Lone Ranger's taciturn sidekick. «Pioneer Press, Jul 13»
8
The war of the apostrophe
The famous Times of London, was undelighted, and swiftly drew the editorial pencil from its scabbard. The punctilious urge to tidy up the language by excising ... «New Zealand Listener, Mar 13»
9
Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
A new biography sheds light on some of the 'undelightful' aspects of the life and work of eminent Swiss zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist Louis Agassiz. «Christian Science Monitor, Mar 13»
10
Sunday Read: Colin Burrow Sifts Through John Milton's Poetry in …
... of Divorce he declared that if mortals didn't find a perfect spiritual mate they could end up having to 'grind in the mill of an undelighted and servil copulation'. «Books LIVE, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Undelight [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/undelight>. May 2024 ».
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