take pleasure

English

Verb

take pleasure (third-person singular simple present takes pleasure, present participle taking pleasure, simple past took pleasure, past participle taken pleasure)

1. (transitive with in) To have enjoyment.

   Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?

Synonyms

• delight in

Translations

to have enjoyment

• Arabic: تَلَذَّذَ (talaḏḏaḏa), اِلْتَذَّ (iltaḏḏa), تَمَتَّعَ (tamattaʕa)
• Finnish: iloita (fi), riemuita (fi), nauttia (fi), ottaa ilo irti
• French: prendre du plaisir
• Galician: compracerse
• Korean: 즐기다 (ko) (jeulgida)
• Maori: whakaahuareka
• Persian: لذت بردن (fa) (lezzat bordan)
• Polish: cieszyć się impf, czerpać przyjemność impf
• Sanskrit: उच्यति (sa) (ucyati), रणति (sa) (raṇati)
• Spanish: complacerse (es), regodearse (es)
• Tajik: лаззат бурдан (lazzat burdan)