Definitions for Delicious
dɪˈlɪʃ əsde·li·cious

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Deliciousadjective

   variety of sweet eating apples

2. delightful, deliciousadjective

   greatly pleasing or entertaining

   "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"

3. delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummyadjective

   extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. deliciousadjective

   Pleasing to taste; tasty.

2. deliciousadjective

   Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

3. Etymology: delicious, from delicious from delicious, from dēliciōsus "delicate, delicious" from dēliciae "delights", plural of dēlicia "pleasure" from dēlicēre "to allure, entice," from de- "away" + lacēre "to lure, deceive". Displaced native este (from este), wunlic (from wynlic), estelic.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deliciousadjective

   Etymology: delicieux, French, from delicatus, Latin.

   1. Sweet; delicate; that affords delight; agreeable; charming; grateful to the sense or mind.

   It is highly probable, that upon Adam’s disobedience Almighty God chased him out of paradise, the fairest and most delicious part of the earth, into some other the most barren and unpleasant of all the whole globe. John Woodward, Nat. History.

   In his last hours his easy wit display;
   Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay. Jonathan Swift.

   Still on that breast enamour’d let me lie,
   Still drink delicious poison from thy eye. Alexander Pope, El. to Abelard.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. delicious

   Delicious is an adjective used to describe food or drink that has a very pleasant taste. It is highly enjoyable to the senses, particularly the sense of taste, making someone want to eat or drink more of it. It can also mean anything that is delightful and pleasing to experience.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deliciousadjective

   affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming

2. Deliciousadjective

   addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Delicious

   de-lish′us, adj. full of delicacies: highly pleasing to the senses: affording exquisite pleasure.—n. Del′ice, (Spens.), delight: a delight or delightful thing.—adv. Deli′ciously, in a delicious manner: (B.) luxuriously.—n. Deli′ciousness. [L. deliciosus—deliciæ.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. delicious

   Delicious is a social bookmarking website – the primary use of Delicious is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On Delicious, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search Delicious to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved – which is made easy with tags.Delicious was acquired by Yahoo on December 9, 2005. No formal acquisition price was disclosed, though it has been speculated at $10 to $15 million. Early seed round investors include Marc Andreessen, Tim O’Reilly, Esther Dyson, Josh Kopelman, Bob Young, Seth Goldstein and Howard Morgan.In September 2007 Delicious showed an upcoming version 2 to the public, along with the announcement of a complete re-write of the code base.In April 2011, Delicious was acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s AVOS Systems. Since the acquisition, Delicious has undergone several redesigns.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Delicious' in Adjectives Frequency: #960

Anagrams for Delicious »

1. lousicide

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Delicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Delicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Delicious in a Sentence

1. Marketing Delia Wong:

   This is our third year in partnership with Freeform and their ‘31 Nights of Halloween’ movie lineup, so it was only right that we celebrated with not just one but three delicious shake flavors in honor of Disney’s ‘Hocus Pocus,’ each served with limited-edition 31 Nights of Halloween x Hocus Pocus cup and spoon that pairs with each Sanderson Sister, following our launch this weekend, guests have been responding very positively, expressing excitement in-shoppe and even on social media.

2. Joel Gazdar:

   The truth is the most delicious food in the world is also the most nutritious food in the world they don't have to be mutually exclusive, food that's grown in paradise tastes like it's from paradise and we want people to have the most orgasmic experience when they're eating.

3. Janita Vermeulen:

   It's super-cosy, it's really cosy, it's nice and the food is delicious.

4. Ash Fulk:

   For me, I like bringing lamb out to tailgates, i think lamb grills out fast, it's delicious and it's a little different than your classic tailgate items. Skirt steak is also one of my personal favorites. You marinate it, throw it in a Ziploc bag, total ghetto style, and it cooks real fast.

5. unknown:

   So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Delicious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Delicious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Delicious
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Delicious
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Delicious
7. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/delicious