Delicious
Meaning of Delicious
- highly pleasant to the taste.
delicious home-baked brown bread
Middle English (also in the sense ‘characterized by sensuous indulgence’): via Old French from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae (plural) ‘delight, pleasure’.
Information about Delicious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of Delicious
De-li-cious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- Delicious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Delicious synonyms
Meaning delightful:
Meaning delectable:
delectable, luscious, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy
Meaning stimulating one's appetite:
Meaning (of food) having a pleasant, distinct flavour:
Meaning offering the promise of an attractive or enjoyable experience:
Meaning (of food) tender, juicy, and tasty:
Meaning having a great deal of money or assets; wealthy:
Meaning having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar or honey; not salt, sour, or bitter:
Meaning having a pleasantly sharp taste or appetizing flavour:
Meaning delicious:
Meaning so pleasant to eat that one wants more:
Meaning very appealing, attractive, or impressive (used as a general term of approval):
Meaning relating to St Ambrose, especially in relation to his developments in church music:
Meaning having a pleasant or pungent flavour:
Meaning having a strong, pleasant taste:
Delicious antonyms
Meaning not fit or suitable for eating:
Meaning not pleasant to taste:
Anagrams of Delicious
Words that rhyme with Delicious
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