delicious
Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
Adjective 2 meanings
Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
“The irony is delicious!”
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 delicere (“to allure, to entice”), from de- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin.
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DELICIOUS at a glance
DELICIOUS has 9 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + L 1 + I 1 + C 3 + I 1 + O 1 + U 1 + S 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,935 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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