delicious

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English delicious, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  delicious, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French delicious, delicieux, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  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

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪʃəs/
• IPA^(key): /dəˈlɪʃəs/, /diˈlɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

1. Pleasing to taste; tasty.
2. (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, volumes (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?

3. (slang) Having tremendous sex appeal.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

Derived terms

Derived terms

• deliciously
• deliciousness
• delish

• -licious
• undelicious

Translations

pleasing to taste

• Afrikaans: lekker (af), smaaklik
• Albanian: i shijshëm (sq)
• Arabic: لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ)

  Egyptian: لذيذ (lazīz)

  Hijazi: لذيذ (lazīz), طِعِم (ṭiʿim), لزيز (lazīz)

  Moroccan: بنين (bnin)

  South Levantine Arabic: زاكي (zāki)

• 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 (śuśśadu)
• Bulgarian: вку́сен (bg) (vkúsen)
• Burmese: အရသာရှိ (a.ra.sahri.)
• Catalan: deliciós, gustós (ca), saborós
• 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)

  Mandarin: 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī), 可口 (zh) (kěkǒu), 美味 (zh) (měiwèi), 鮮美／鲜美 (zh) (xiānměi), 鲜美 (zh) (xiānměi), 好喝 (zh) (hǎohē) (of drinks only)

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

• Czech: lahodný (cs), chutný (cs)
• Danish: delikat, liflig, lækker (da), yndig, herlig, velsmagende, smagfuld
• Dutch: heerlijk (nl), lekker (nl), smakelijk (nl)
• Erzya: тантей (tanťej)
• Esperanto: bongusta
• 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)
• Hawaiian: ʻono
• Hebrew: טָעִים (ta'ím)
• Hiligaynon: namit
• Hindi: स्वादिष्ट (hi) (svādiṣṭ), मज़ेदार (mazedār), लज़ीज़ (lazīz)
• Hungarian: finom (hu), ízletes (hu)
• Icelandic: bragðgóður, ljúffengur (is)
• Ido: delicioza (io)
• Indonesian: lezat (id), sedap (id), enak (id)
• 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)
• Kapampangan: manyaman
• Karachay-Balkar: татымлы (tatımlı)
• Kazakh: дәмді (kk) (dämdı), татымды (tatymdy), тәтті (kk) (tättı)
• Khmer: ឆ្ងាញ់ (km) (cŋaɲ)
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• Korean: 맛있다 (ko) (masitda) (predicative), 맛있는 (masinneun) (attributive)
• Kurdish:

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• Kyrgyz: таттуу (ky) (tattuu), даамдуу (ky) (daamduu), ширелүү (ky) (şirelüü)
• Lao: ແຊບ (sǣp), ນົວ (nūa)
• Latin: sapidus
• Latvian: garšīgs, gards
• Lithuanian: skanus
• Macedonian: вкусен (vkusen)
• Malay: sedap, lazat
• Manx: ard-vlastal
• Maore Comorian: -endza lada
• Maori: kakato, kōwatawata, makue, hāhā, hūnene
• Marathi: रुचकर (ruckar)
• Mongolian: гайхамшигтай (gajxamšigtaj)
• Navajo: ayóo áhálniih
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deilig (no), nydelig (no), velsmakende

• Ossetian: хӕрзад (xærzad)
• Persian: لذیذ (fa) (laziz), خوشمزه (fa) (xušmaze)
• Polish: smaczny (pl), pyszny (pl), wyśmienity (pl), dobry (pl)
• Portuguese: delicioso (pt) m, saboroso (pt), gostoso (pt), apetitoso (pt)
• Romanian: delicios (ro), gustos (ro)
• Russian: очень вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj), ла́комый (ru) (lákomyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: укусан

  Roman: ukusan (sh)

• Slovak: chutný
• Slovene: okusen, slasten (sl)
• Southern Thai: หร่อย
• 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 (xuštaʾm), 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)
• 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: сма́чний (smáčnyj)
• Urdu: سوادشٹ (svādiṣṭ), مزیدار (mazedār), لذیذ (lazīz)
• Uzbek: yoqimli (uz), ajoyib (uz), shirin (uz), lazzatli (uz), totli (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngon (vi)
• Welsh: blasus (cy)
• Yiddish: באַטעמט (batamt), געשמאַק (geshmak)
• ǃXóõ: ʘkxʻúm

Anagrams

• leucosiid, lousicide

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, see above.

Adjective

delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular deliciouse)

1. delicious; tasty
2. noble; courtly; courteous

Declension

Declension of delicious

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	delicious	deliciouse	delicious
	Oblique	delicious			deliciouse	delicious
Plural	Subject	delicious	deliciouses		delicious
	Oblique	delicious			deliciouses	delicious

Descendants

• English: delicious
• French: délicieux