Word Meanings - DELICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

Additional info about word: DELICIOUS

1. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson. 2. Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury. Milton. Syn. -- Delicious, Delightful. Delicious refers to the pleasure derived from certain of the senses, particularly the taste and smell; as, delicious food; a delicious fragrance. Delightful may also refer to most of the senses (as, delightful music; a delightful prospect; delightful sensations), but has a higher application to matters of taste, feeling, and sentiment; as, a delightful abode, conversation, employment; delightful scenes, etc. Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay. Smith. No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen, Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELICIOUS)

• Exquisite
• Choice
• rare
• refined
• delicate
• perfect
• matchless
• intense
• consummate
• delicious
• Luscious
• Sweet
• sugary
• honied
• delightful
• toothsome
• delightsome
• Pleasant
• Grateful
• agreeable
• acceptable
• pleasurable
• desirable
• gratifying
• cheerful
• enlivening
• sportive
• delectable
• jocular
• satisfactory
• exquisite
• merry
• Sapid
• Tasty
• relishing
• savory
• piquant
• palatable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELICIOUS)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to DELICIOUS)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• HONIED
  See HONEYED
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• SAPID
  Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• INTENSE
  to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• CINCHONIC
  Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• SULPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• CINCHONINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
• PYTHONIST
  A conjurer; a diviner.
• SIPHONIATA
  See SIPHONATA