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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.
  2. adj. Very pleasant; delightful: a delicious revenge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pleasing in the highest degree; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure: as, a delicious viand; a delicious odor; delicious fruit or wine.
  2. Most pleasing to the mind; yielding exquisite delight; delightful.
  3. Delicate; luxurious; dainty; addicted to or seeking pleasure.
  4. Synonyms Delicious, Delightful, luscious, savory. Delicious is highly agreeable to some sense, generally that of taste, sometimes that of smell or of hearing. Delightful is highly agreeable to the mind; it is always supersensuous, except perhaps as sight or hearing is sometimes the immediate means to high mental pleasure. Delicious food, odors, music; delightful thoughts, hopes, anticipations, news.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pleasing to taste; tasty.
  2. adj. colloquial Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
  2. adj. obsolete Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  2. n. variety of sweet eating apples
  3. adj. greatly pleasing or entertaining

Etymologies

  1. Middle English delicious, from Anglo-Norman delicious from Old French delicious, delicieus, from Late Latin dēliciōsus "delicate, delicious" from dēliciae "delights", plural of dēlicia "pleasure" from dēlicēre "to allure, entice," from de- "away" + lacēre "to lure, deceive". Displaced native Middle English este ("delicious, favorable") (from Old English ēste ("delicious, dainty, luxurious, delicate")), Middle English wunlic, wunli ("delicious, joyous") (from Old English wynlīċ ("pleasant, beatiful, joyful")), Old English ēstelīc ("delicious, delicate, dainty"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin dēliciōsus, pleasing, from Latin dēlicia, pleasure : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + lacere, to entice. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. delightful
  1. charming
  1. luxurious
  1. effeminate

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Other words for ‘delicious’

  1. tasty
  1. pleasing

same context (5)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sweet
  1. exquisite
  1. soft
  1. please
  1. wild

rhymes (18)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. ambitious
  2. auspicious
  3. capricious
  1. expeditious
  2. factitious
  3. fictitious
  1. injudicious
  2. judicious
  3. malicious
  1. nutritious
  2. pernicious
  3. propitious
  1. repetitious
  2. seditious
  3. superstitious
  1. surreptitious
  2. suspicious
  3. vicious

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. delectable
  2. yummy
  3. toothsome
  4. ambrosial
  5. delicious
  6. delightful
  7. scrumptious
  8. luscious
  9. feast
  10. macadamia nut
  11. durian
  1. mangosteen
  2. deliciousness
  3. Lecythis
  4. greengage
  5. guava
  6. cherimoyer
  7. grateful
  8. bonne bouche
  9. burrel
  10. apricot
  11. attihawmeg
  1. deliciously
  2. eating
  3. honey
  4. partake
  5. nectar
  6. viand
  7. ambrosiac
  8. bergamot
  9. dainty
  10. goluptious
  11. thick-footed morel
  1. ambrosia
  2. doozy
  3. speckled trout
  4. course
  5. simply
  6. morchella crassipes
  7. brook trout
  8. mignonette
  9. monkey-pot
  10. muscadine
  11. nectareous
  1. ortolan
  2. pitahaya
  3. strawberry
  4. tidbit
  5. urbaniste
  6. vernal grass
  7. virgalieu
  8. delicacy
  9. delicate
  10. manna
  11. nectarine
  1. nice
  2. rich
  3. seckel
  4. sooth

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Words tagged ‘delicious’

  1. about
  2. addon
  1. admire
  2. adobeair
  1. apple
  2. chocolate
  1. dark chocolate
  2. deep fried Twinkies
  1. falafel
  2. haggis
  1. lasagna
  2. moffle
  1. peanut butter
  2. sweetbreads

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  • Louises I lifted my face to the rain. The night air was delicious with the smell of damp woodland, streaked with the odors of wet tarmac, cordite, diesel and the seductive whiff of the motorcycle leathers. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
    Mar 27, 2012

  • arcadia YES! Ideas CAN be delicious. See my list "Picture THIS on your marquee" for examples. Dec 19, 2007

  • lampbane Penny Arcade (7/12/06):

    "What does it mean to be delicious? Can something untasteable posess some flavor that is metatastual? Could, then, an idea be delicious?" Dec 6, 2007

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