Delicious
[dɪ'lɪʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
(a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Luscious, savory, palatable, delicate, dainty, nice.[2]. Pleasant, grateful, agreeable.
Checker: Otis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exquisite, luxurious, delightful, dainty, choice
ANT:Coarse, common, unsavory, unpalatable, nauseous, loathsome
Checked by Bonnie
Definition
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.
Editor: Stephen
Examples
- It will be delicious, I'm sure, said Meg complacently. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The next few minutes were delicious. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Feeling greatly refreshed by this rest, he bathed his face and hands in cold water, with the intention of going outside into the delicious night air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was well cooked, the rabbit meat flaked off the bones, and the sauce was delicious. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is the bell--and, by all that's delicious! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The river and the hills are delicious, and these glimpses of the narrow cross streets are my delight. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Here's a delicious fat one, Noah, dear! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In progress of time, I also became a father, and our little darlings, our playthings and delights, called forth a thousand new and delicious feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not a note of Donizetti's delicious music was lost on him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- How delicious! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The Grand Duke's tea was delicious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It's so delicious--waking every morning to smell lilies-of-the-valley in one's room! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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