delicious
English
Etymology
From Middle English delicious, from Anglo-Norman delicious, from Old French delicious, delicieux, from Late Latin dēliciōsus (“delicate, delicious”), from dēliciae (“delights”), plural of dēlicia (“pleasure”), from deliciō (“I allure, I entice”), from de- (“away”) + laciō (“I lure, I deceive”). Displaced native Middle English este (“delicious, favorable”) (from Old English ēste (“delicious, dainty, luxurious, delicate”)), Middle English wunli, wunlic (“delicious, joyous”) (from Old English wynlīċ (“pleasant, beautiful, joyful”)), Old English ēstelīc (“delicious, delicate, dainty”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Adjective
delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)
- Pleasing to taste; tasty.
- (colloquial) Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
- The irony is delicious!
- 1986, Patrick Lichfield, Courvoisier's Book of the Best (page 230)
- But the houses are so delicious and the way they're townscaped on to hilly bits is absolutely wonderful.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
- (slang) Having tremendous sex appeal.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:delicious
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
pleasing to taste
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Old French
Etymology
Latin, see above.
Adjective
delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular deliciouse)
Declension
Declension of delicious
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Singular | Subject | delicious | deliciouse | delicious |
Oblique | delicious | deliciouse | delicious | |
Plural | Subject | delicious | deliciouses | delicious |
Oblique | delicious | deliciouses | delicious |
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