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delicious

  • adjective
  • de·li·cious
  • /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/

Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.

Other meanings

  1. Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

    “The irony is delicious!”

  2. Having tremendous sex appeal.

Example sentences

  • “These onion rings are delicious.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
  • “The cucumber was delicious.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "deliciosus" (dēliciōsus).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “delicious” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.