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Definitions for delicious
dɪˈlɪʃ əsde·li·cious

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Deliciousadjective

    Etymology: delicieux, French, from delicatus, Latin.

    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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  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. deliciosusdeliciæ.]

CrunchBase

  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

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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. Ron Stone:

    There are many options to mix and match from your pantry, and with advance planning and a little creativity, you can provide healthy and delicious meals for your family.

  2. Gilda Radner:

    I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

  3. Aldous Huxley:

    We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

  4. Kevin Hochman:

    Fried Chicken is so delicious, our customers will find Fried Chicken difficult to tell that Fried Chicken's plant-based, i think we've all heard' Fried Chicken tastes like chicken' -- well our customers are going to be amazed and say,' Fried Chicken tastes like Fried Chicken !'.

  5. Cynthia Sass:

    There are numerous delicious combinations, including bruschetta, roasted red pepper pesto, or simply sautéing tomatoes in olive oil with garlic and herbs to toss with lean protein and a small portion of whole grain pasta.

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