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adjective

Delicious adj.

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?"

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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Etymology of 'Delicious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Delicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... a political situation, add a rocky soil, and the western slope of a great water-shed, pour into a mould and garnish with laurel leaves. It will be found delicious! ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

... witnessed the meeting between Rex and Daisy at the fountain, and how tenderly he clasped her in his arms as they waltzed together in the mellow light, to the delicious strains of the "Blue Danube," and knowing Rex as well as he did, he knew for the first time in life Rex's ...

— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey

... and he was more devoted to her. Why should he not enjoy the delicious pleasure of seeing her and listening to her? His life was neither gay nor happy; he felt perfectly sure of himself, and, as he knew her now, he was also sure of her—a brave and honest girl. Otherwise, how had she divined ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... finds means to throw his master into a cauldron of boiling water, and pretending that the cook's death resulted from an accident, he obtains the chief position in the kitchen himself. He then provides the convent with such delicious food that the monks give themselves up entirely to material enjoyment, and finally reach a condition of degeneracy from which recovery is almost impossible. Rush, however, is exposed in time to prevent absolute ruin, and ...

— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman

... far, the most favourite place of resort, while our people there were melting some seal blubber. No Greenlander was ever fonder of train-oil than our friends here seemed to be. They relished the very skimmings of the kettle, and dregs of the casks; but a little of the pure stinking oil was a delicious feast, so eagerly desired, that I suppose it ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr

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