Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.
- adjective Very pleasant; delightful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- Most pleasing to the mind; yielding exquisite delight; delightful.
- Delicate; luxurious; dainty; addicted to or seeking pleasure.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
- adjective obsolete Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pleasing to
taste ;tasty . - adjective colloquial Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
- noun variety of sweet eating apples
- adjective greatly pleasing or entertaining
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In this recipe, the chef elevates what he calls "delicious peasant food" with two Moroccan-inflected sauces: a lime-coriander yogurt and a tapenade made with dates and Lucques olives.
Sardines with Olive-Date Tapenade and Yogurt Kitty Greenwald 2012
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2010 Saracco 2010 Saracco Moscato d'Asti, $16 The word "great" is rarely, if ever, applied to Moscato d'Asti, but the word "delicious" would not be amiss in describing this light, bright, slightly fizzy white with notes of pear and white flower from one of the best Moscato producers in Piedmont.
Enjoying Good Wines With a Violin Great Lettie Teague 2011
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Goldberg did serve as an informal adviser to Tripp during the months in which she was taping conversations with Lewinsky, and Goldberg relished hearing what she called the delicious "dish" about the president.
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Goldberg did serve as an informal adviser to Tripp during the months in which she was taping conversations with Lewinsky, and Goldberg relished hearing what she called the delicious "dish" about the president.
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About “gravlax” which I called a delicious fermented salmon dish, something some of you Americans thought was funny:
Evolution versus "Intelligent Design" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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He likes how she says the word "delicious," so she repeats it three times: "Delicious, delicious, delicious."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nora Zelevansky 2012
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He resides near Jocotepec, Jalisco, in "delicious" remote mountainside privacy.
Allyn Hunt 1996
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Sometimes I pick wines because they are just plain delicious, but it goes beyond that.
New York Cork Club 2009
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EW, your clips are delicious from a menu of mutton.
'Sound Bites': Your favorite TV clip this week? | EW.com 2009
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I am very much of the belief that a walk or a subway ride for something really delicious is alwasy worth it.
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I’m in full support of the ethos behind the David Chang-popularized term “ugly delicious”—the idea that it’s generally more important for food to taste good than it is for it to look good—and I’m mostly repulsed by the idea of “doin’ it for the ’gram,” as in Instagram, especially when it comes to food.
The Dream of an Easy Week-Night Dinner Condé Nast 2022
lampbane commented on the word delicious
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?"
December 6, 2007
arcadia commented on the word delicious
YES! Ideas CAN be delicious. See my list "Picture THIS on your marquee" for examples.
December 20, 2007
Louises commented on the word delicious
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.
March 27, 2012