- having a very pleasant taste or smell
- Who cooked this? It's absolutely delicious.
- to taste/smell/look delicious
- a delicious meal/recipe/treat
- This dish is delicious with cream.
- The food was delicious.
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1- The meal was really delicious.
- The recipe sounds delicious.
- Their hens provide them with delicious and nutritious eggs.
- Lentils cooked with garlic make a delicious accompaniment to sausages or red meat.
- What's that? It smells delicious.
- a delicious alternative to cheese
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- smell
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- incredibly
- most
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- delicious and nutritious
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- (literary) extremely pleasant
- the delicious coolness of the breeze
- A delicious shiver of excitement ran through his body.
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘characterized by sensuous indulgence’): via Old French from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae (plural) ‘delight, pleasure’.
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