• Undelight

    Origin

    - + delight

    Full definition of undelight

    Noun

    undelight

    (countable and uncountable; plural undelights)
    1. (uncountable) The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
      • 1907, Virgil, The Æneid (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor), J. M. Dent & Sons (1910):Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night,Where friends, clasped close in lingering undelight,Weep at the thought of parting. Matrons, ay,
    2. (countable) Something unpleasant or displeasing.
      • 1931, Esther Frayne Hayes, At Home in China, W. Neale (1931), page 82:Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.
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