delicious

Universal Words adjective 1 having a very pleasant taste or smell: Who cooked this? It's delicious. * a delicious alternative to cheese * This dish is delicious with cream. 2 (literary) extremely pleasant or enjoyable: the delicious coolness of the breeze * A delicious shiver of excitement ran through his body. deliciously adverb: deliciously creamy soup * The cream felt deliciously cool on my hot skin.