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Delicious   /dɪlˈɪʃəs/   Listen
adjective
Delicious  adj.  
1.
Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. "Some delicious landscape." "One draught of spring's delicious air." "Were not his words delicious?"
2.
Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate. (Obs.) "Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury."
Synonyms: Delicious, Delightful. Delicious refers to the pleasure derived from certain of the senses, particularly the taste and smell; as, delicious food; a delicious fragrance. Delightful may also refer to most of the senses (as, delightful music; a delightful prospect; delightful sensations), but has a higher application to matters of taste, feeling, and sentiment; as, a delightful abode, conversation, employment; delightful scenes, etc. "Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay." "No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen, Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green."






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"Delicious" Quotes from Famous Books



... entertained royally at luncheon by Saranta, their host, who appeared to be the wealthy overlord of this portion of the planet. The meal was delicious—tender, inch-thick steaks served with delicate wine sauce and half a dozen of the planet's exotic vegetables, topped off ...
— Disqualified • Charles Louis Fontenay

... took possession of a chair. His eyes were shining with happiness; the Vicomtesse, unable to endure the brilliant light in them, looked down at the book. She was enjoying a delicious, ever new sensation; the sense of a man's delight in her presence is an unfailing feminine instinct. And then, besides, he had divined her, and a woman is so grateful to the man who has mastered the apparently ...
— The Deserted Woman • Honore de Balzac

... genial spirit produced from an invisible pocket a red-covered book bearing the delicious title of "Baedeker's Hades: A Hand-book for Travellers," which has entirely superseded, according to the advertisement on the fly-leaves, such books as Virgil and Dante's Inferno as the best guide to the lower regions, as well it might, for it appeared on perusal to have been prepared ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs

... from heart to brain Went thrilling with delicious measure, Till toil, which late had seemed a pain, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various

... little vegetable Indian, which scalps a civilized man's mouth, as his animal representative scalps his cranium. But there is something quite charming in Winslow's picture of the luxury in which they are living. Lobsters, oysters, eels, mussels, fish and fowl, delicious fruit, including the grapes aforesaid,—if they only had "kine, horses, and sheep," he makes no question but men would live as contented here as in any part of the world. We cannot help admiring the way ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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