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 delicere (“to allure, to entice”), from de- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Displaced native Old English ārlīċ (“delicious”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/
(US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/, /diˈlɪʃ.əs/, /dəˈlɪʃ.əs/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
- 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 120:
  It was quite dark by the time Tarzan had gorged himself. Ah, but it had been delicious! Never had he quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served him, and in the bottom of his savage heart there had constantly been the craving for the warm meat of the fresh kill, and the rich, red blood.
(colloquial, figurative) Pleasing to a person's 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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
  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

Translations

pleasing to taste

Afrikaans: lekker (af), smaaklik
Albanian: i shijshëm (sq)
Altai:
Southern Altai: тату (tatu), таамду (taamdu)
Arabic: لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ), شَهِيّ (šahiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: لذيذ (lazīz)

Gulf Arabic: لذيذ (laḏīḏ), حلو (ḥilu)

Hijazi Arabic: لذيذ (lazīz), طِعِم (ṭiʕim), لزيز (lazīz)

Moroccan Arabic: بنين (bnīn), لديد (ldīd)

South Levantine Arabic: زاكي (zāki), لذيذ (lazīz)
Armenian: համով (hy) (hamov), համեղ (hy) (hameġ)
Asturian: sabrosu, ricu, prestosu
Azerbaijani: ləzzətli (az), dadlı (az), xoşməzə
Bashkir: тәмле (təmle)
Belarusian: сма́чны (smáčny)
Bengali: সুস্বাদু (bn) (śuśśadu), মজা (bn) (moja), লজিজ (bn) (lojij)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: masiram (bcl)
Bulgarian: вку́сен (bg) (vkúsen)
Burmese: အရသာ ရှိ (a.ra.sahri.)
Catalan: deliciós (ca), gustós (ca), saborós (ca)
Cherokee: ᎤᏖᏗ (utedi)
Chickasaw: champoli
Chinese:
Cantonese: 好食 (hou² sik⁶), 好味 (hou² mei⁶), 好吃 (hou² hek³) (literary), 可口 (ho² hau²), 美味 (mei⁵ mei⁶)

Hakka: 好食 (hau-sṳ̍t, hó-sṳ̍t)

Hokkien: 好食 (hó-chia̍h), 美味 (zh-min-nan) (bí-bī)

Mandarin: 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī), 可口 (zh) (kěkǒu), 美味 (zh) (měiwèi), 鮮美 / 鲜美 (zh) (xiānměi), 好喝 (zh) (hǎohē) (of drinks only)
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: -endza lada
Cornish: dentethyel
Czech: lahodný (cs), chutný (cs)
Danish: delikat, liflig, lækker (da), yndig, herlig, velsmagende, smagfuld
Dutch: heerlijk (nl), lekker (nl), smakelijk (nl)
Erzya: тантей (tantej)
Esperanto: bongusta (eo)
Estonian: maitsev (et)
Faroese: leskiligur
Finnish: herkullinen (fi), maukas (fi), hyvänmakuinen (fi)
French: délicieux (fr), savoureux (fr), gouteux (fr), goutu (fr)
Friulian: gustôs
Galician: delicioso, saboroso (gl), gustoso (gl), sabedeiro (gl), sabedor (gl)
Georgian: გემრიელი (ka) (gemrieli)
German: köstlich (de), lecker (de), geschmackvoll (de), schmackhaft (de)
Greek: εύγευστος (el) (évgefstos), νόστιμος (el) (nóstimos)
Guarani:
Mbya Guarani: e

Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} he'ẽ
Hawaiian: ʻono
Hebrew: טָעִים (ta'ím)
Hiligaynon: namit
Hindi: स्वादिष्ट (hi) (svādiṣṭ), लज़ीज़ (lazīz)
Hungarian: finom (hu), ízletes (hu)
Icelandic: bragðgóður, ljúffengur (is)
Ido: delicioza (io)
Indonesian: lezat (id), sedap (id), enak (id)
Ingrian: maukas, makuin, hyvämakuin, makuisa
Ingush: чам болаш (čam bolaš)
Irish: blasta, blastacht, caithiseach
Isan: แซ่บ
Italian: squisito (it), delizioso (it), gustoso (it)
Japanese: 美味しい (ja) (おいしい, oishii), 旨い (ja) (うまい, umai)
Kabyle: aẓidan
Kapampangan: manyaman
Karachay-Balkar: татымлы (tatımlı)
Kazakh: дәмді (dämdı), татымды (tatymdy), тәтті (tättı)
Khmer: ឆ្ងាញ់ (km) (chngañ)
Korean: 맛있다 (ko) (masitda)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەلەزەت (belezet), بەتام (ckb) (betam)
Kyrgyz: таттуу (ky) (tattuu), даамдуу (ky) (daamduu), ширелүү (ky) (şirelüü)
Lao: ແຊບ (sǣp), ນົວ (nūa)
Latin: sapidus
Latvian: garšīgs, gards
Lithuanian: skanus
Luxembourgish: lecker
Macedonian: вкусен (vkusen)
Malay: sedap (ms), lazat (ms)
Brunei Malay: nyaman
Maltese: bnin m
Manchu: ᠠᠮᡨᠠᠩᡤᠠ (amtangga)
Manx: ard-vlastal
Māori: kakato, kōwatawata, makue, hāhā, hūnene
Marathi: रुचकर (ruckar)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гайхамшигтай (gajxamšigtaj)
Navajo: ayóo áhálniih
Norwegian:
Bokmål: deilig (no), nydelig (no), velsmakende
Occitan: deliciós (oc), gostós (oc), saborós (oc)
Ossetian: хӕрзад (xærzad)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: لَذیذ (laziz), خوش‌مَزِه (xoš-maze)
Plautdietsch: schmakhauft, scheenschmakjent
Polish: smaczny (pl), pyszny (pl), wyśmienity (pl), dobry (pl)
Portuguese: delicioso (pt) m, saboroso (pt), gostoso (pt), apetitoso (pt)
Romanian: delicios (ro), gustos (ro)
Rungus: angod
Russian: вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj), ла́комый (ru) (lákomyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̀кусан

Latin: ùkusan (sh)
Sherpa: ཞིམ་པུ (zhim pu)
Slovak: chutný
Slovene: okusen, slasten (sl)
Spanish: delicioso (es), sabroso (es), rico (es), gustoso (es), apetitoso (es)
Svan: ხოჩა გამაშ (xoča gamaš)
Swahili: -tamu sana
Swedish: delikat (sv), läcker (sv), smaklig (sv), härlig (sv), välsmakande (sv)
Tagalog: masarap
Tajik: лазиз (tg) (laziz), хуштаъм (xušta'm), бомаза (bomaza), болаззат (bolazzat), хушмаза (xušmaza)
Tamil: சுவையான (cuvaiyāṉa)
Tatar: тәмле (tämle)
Telugu: కమ్మని (te) (kammani), రుచికరమైన (te) (rucikaramaina)
Thai: อร่อย (th) (à-rɔ̀i), โอชา (th) (oo-chaa)
Southern Thai: หรอย
Tibetan: བདའ་བ (bda' ba) (of savory foods), ཟིལ་དངར (zil dngar) (of sweet foods), ཞིམ་པོ (zhim po) (of sweet or nutty foods), བྲོ་བ་ཆེན་པོ (bro ba chen po)
Turkish: lezzetli (tr), tatlı (tr)
Turkmen: lezzetli, tagamly, şirin
Udmurt: ческыт (ćeskyt)
Ukrainian: смачни́й (smačnýj), до́брий (uk) (dóbryj)
Urdu: لَذِیذ (lazīz), مَزے دار (maze dār), سوادِشْٹ (svādiśṭ)
Uyghur: تەملىك (temlik)
Uzbek: yoqimli (uz), ajoyib (uz), shirin (uz), lazzatli (uz), totli (uz)
Vietnamese: ngon (vi)
Welsh: blasus (cy)
Yiddish: באַטעמט (batemt), געשמאַק (geshmak)
Yucatec Maya: kiʼ
ǃXóõ: ʘkxʻúm

Anagrams

leucosiid, lousicide

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin dēliciōsus, see above.

Adjective

delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular deliciouse)

delicious; tasty
noble; courtly; courteous

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	delicious	deliciouse	delicious
singular	oblique	delicious	deliciouse		deliciouse	delicious
plural	subject	delicious	deliciouses		delicious
plural	oblique	delicious	deliciouses		deliciouses	delicious

Descendants

French: délicieux
→ English: delicious