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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for delicious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is delicious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, delicious is tagged as adjective.
Does delicious appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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