Delight and Try

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Delight verb - To feel or express joy or triumph.

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Try is an antonym for delight.

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Delight is an antonym for try in topics: bother, attempt, experiment, bring before a judge.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

special	special delight	special try
complete	complete delight	complete try
many	many delight	many try
obvious	obvious delight	obvious try
Other adjectives: small, real, great, huge, new, possible.

someone	delight someone	try someone
world	delight world	try world

If you have it set to Japanese, go watch Noel's arcade ending in Continuum Shift and try to tell yourself she doesn't sound like she's moaning in delight during her dose of Mind Rape.

Source: Does This Remind You Of Anything / Video Games
On Sesame Street, during Maria's pregnancy with Gabriella, her cravings led her to try Grouch cuisine, which is always depicted as very disgusting mash-ups such as marshmallow sauce over fish — and she loves it, much to Oscar's delight (and Luis's disgust).

Source: Wacky Cravings
Wyrd Sisters shows a subversion, when the witches summon a demon who agrees to answer three questions, and takes great delight in giving technically-accurate but completely unhelpful answers to the first two, no matter how carefully the witches try to phrase them.

Source: Literal Genie

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