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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

1. Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
2. (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, 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

• deliciously
• deliciousness
• delish
• it was delicious
• -licious
• red delicious
• uber-delicious
• undelicious

 

Translations

pleasing to taste

• Afrikaans: lekker (af), smaaklik
• Albanian: i shijshëm (sq)
• 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: masiram (bcl)
• Brunei Malay: nyaman
• Bulgarian: вку́сен (bg) (vkúsen)
• Burmese: အရသာရှိ (a.ra.sahri.)
• Catalan: deliciós, 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)

• 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 (tanťej)
• 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)
• Guaraní: he'ẽ
• 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)
• 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
• Macedonian: вкусен (vkusen)
• Malay: sedap (ms), lazat (ms)
• Maltese: bnin m
• Manchu: ᠠᠮᡨᠠᠩᡤᠠ (amtangga)
• Manx: ard-vlastal
• Maore Comorian: -endza lada
• Maori: kakato, kōwatawata, makue, hāhā, hūnene
• Marathi: रुचकर (ruckar)
• Mbyá Guaraní: e
• 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: لذیذ (fa) (laziz), خوشمزه (fa) (xušmaze)
• 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: очень вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj), ла́комый (ru) (lákomyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀кусан

  Roman: ùkusan (sh)

• Sherpa: ཞིམ་པུ (zhim pu)
• Slovak: chutný
• Slovene: okusen, slasten (sl)
• Southern Thai: หรอย
• 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: смачни́й (smačnýj), до́брий (uk) (dóbryj)
• Urdu: لَذِیذ (lazīz), مَزے دار (mazedār), سوادشٹ (svādiṣṭ)
• 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)
• ǃXóõ: ʘkxʻúm

Anagrams

• leucosiid, lousicide

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin dēliciōsus, 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

• French: délicieux
• → English: delicious