delicious
Americanadjective
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highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell.
a delicious dinner;
a delicious aroma.
- Synonyms:
- delicate, dainty, delectable, savory, palatable
- Antonyms:
- unpleasant
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very pleasing; delightful.
a delicious sense of humor.
noun
adjective
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very appealing to the senses, esp to the taste or smell
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extremely enjoyable or entertaining
a delicious joke
Usage
Spelling tips for delicious The word delicious is hard to spell because it is spelled very differently from the way it is pronounced [ dih-lish-uhs ]. How to spell delicious: A deli is a place that sells sandwiches with Cheese, Iceberg lettuce, Onions, and Usually Salami (-CIOUS). This tasty sentence reminds you how to spell deli-cious.
Related Words
Delicious, luscious refer to that which is especially agreeable to the senses. That which is delicious is highly agreeable to the taste or sometimes to the smell: a delicious meal. Luscious implies such a luxuriant fullness or ripeness as to make an object rich: a luscious banana; a luscious beauty; luscious music.
Other Word Forms
- deliciously adverb
- deliciousness noun
- hyperdelicious adjective
- hyperdeliciously adverb
- hyperdeliciousness noun
- overdelicious adjective
- overdeliciously adverb
- overdeliciousness noun
- undelicious adjective
- undeliciously adverb
Etymology
Origin of delicious
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin dēliciōsus, equivalent to Latin dēliciae “delight” + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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They realize Mr. da Silva’s peddling more than just delicious food, great coffee and fun merch.
I watched in awe as melted cheese oozed out from inside, forming a delicious crust along the edges of my cooked omelette.
From Salon
“It’s juicy, it’s delicious, it has a really great texture, it’s just logistically a little more forgiving.”
Wolf had never hunted reindeer, but he knew the scent well, for his mother used to bring him the branches that grow from reindeers’ heads, with the hide hanging off in delicious, chewable tatters.
From Literature
Her summer is transfigured by their innocent trysts: “There was the still water of a lake. There were a garden’s scents and its delicious twilight air.”
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