adj

1. greatly pleasing or entertaining

e.g. a delightful surprise
the comedy was delightful
a delicious joke

Synonym: delightful

2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Synonym: delectablelusciouspleasant-tastingscrumptioustoothsomeyummy

noun

1. the act of delivering a child

Synonym: obstetrical delivery

2. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

e.g. work is the deliverance of mankind
a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

Synonym: rescuedeliverancesaving

3. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

Synonym: pitch

4. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

e.g. his reluctant delivery of bad news

Synonym: bringing

5. the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

Synonym: liverylegal transfer

6. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

e.g. his manner of speaking was quite abrupt
her speech was barren of southernisms
I detected a slight accent in his speech

Synonym: manner of speakingspeech

7. the event of giving birth

e.g. she had a difficult delivery

noun

1. any undertaking that is easy to do

e.g. marketing this product will be no picnic

Synonym: cinchbreezesnapduck soupchild's playpushoverwalkoverpiece of cake

2. any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion

3. a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

Synonym: field dayouting

noun

1. the enactment of a pretense

e.g. it was just pretend

Synonym: make-believe

noun

1. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

e.g. there is little or no promise that he will recover

Synonym: hope

2. a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future

verb

1. cause to feel relaxed

e.g. A hot bath always relaxes me

Synonym: unstrainunlaxloosen upunwindmake relaxed

2. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

e.g. He relaxed in the hot tub
Let's all relax after a hard day's work

Synonym: loosen upunbendunwinddecompressslow down

3. become loose or looser or less tight

e.g. The noose loosened
the rope relaxed

Synonym: loosenloose

4. make less taut

e.g. relax the tension on the rope

Synonym: unbend

5. make less active or fast

e.g. He slackened his pace as he got tired
Don't relax your efforts now

Synonym: slackslackenslack up

6. become less severe or strict

e.g. The rules relaxed after the new director arrived

Synonym: loosen

7. make less severe or strict

e.g. The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught

Synonym: loosen

8. become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

e.g. our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group

Synonym: loosen up

adj

1. having great beauty and splendor

e.g. a glorious spring morning
a glorious sunset
splendid costumes
a kind of splendiferous native simplicity

Synonym: gloriousresplendentsplendiferous

2. characterized by grandeur

e.g. the brilliant court life at Versailles
a glorious work of art
magnificent cathedrals
the splendid coronation ceremony

Synonym: brilliantgloriousmagnificent

3. very good
f the highest quality

e.g. made an excellent speech
the school has excellent teachers
a first-class mind

Synonym: excellentfirst-classfantabulous

adv

1. totally and definitely
without question

e.g. we are absolutely opposed to the idea
he forced himself to lie absolutely still
iron is absolutely necessary

2. completely and without qualification
used informally as intensifiers

e.g. an absolutely magnificent painting
a perfectly idiotic idea
you're perfectly right
utterly miserable
you can be dead sure of my innocence
was dead tired
dead right

Synonym: perfectlyutterlydead