undelight

English

Etymology

un- +‎ delight

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, published 1931, page 82:

     Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.

Quotations

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Anagrams

• indulgeth, unlighted