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Delicious   /dɪlˈɪʃəs/   Listen
Delicious

adjective
1.
Greatly pleasing or entertaining.  Synonym: delightful.  "The comedy was delightful" , "A delicious joke"
2.
Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.  Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy.
noun
1.
Variety of sweet eating apples.



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"Delicious" Quotes from Famous Books



... often came to take tea with us. On such occasions the table was spread with a snow-white cloth, and the china cups and silver spoons were taken from the old-fashioned buffet. There were hot muffins, tea rusks, and delicious sweetmeats. My grandmother kept two cows, and the fresh cream was Miss Fanny's delight. She invariably declared that it was the best in town. The old ladies had cosey times together. They would work and chat, and sometimes, while talking over old times, their spectacles would get dim with tears, ...
— Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Written by Herself • Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent)
... meal so much in my life," she declared, as she lifted the tin plate from her lap. "And this coffee is delicious. Won't you ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... found thee here, And Innocence thy sister dear? Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men: Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow: Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... were both, but rich in Tender love's delicious plenties; She a damsel of the kitchen, ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... me well supplied with what is genuinely ridiculous: wit and humour may play as harmlessly or beneficently round the changing facets of egoism, absurdity, and vice, as the sunshine over the rippling sea or the dewy meadows. Why should we make our delicious sense of the ludicrous, with its invigorating shocks of laughter and its irrepressible smiles which are the outglow of an inward radiation as gentle and cheering as the warmth of morning, flourish like a brigand on the robbery of our mental wealth?—or ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot


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