DELICIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Delicious mean? 

• DELICIOUS (noun)
  The noun DELICIOUS has 1 sense:

1. variety of sweet eating apples

  Familiarity information: DELICIOUS used as a noun is very rare.

• DELICIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective DELICIOUS has 2 senses:

1. greatly pleasing or entertaining

2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

  Familiarity information: DELICIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELICIOUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Variety of sweet eating apples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Delicious" is a kind of...):

dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Delicious"):

Golden Delicious; Yellow Delicious (a sweet eating apple with yellow skin)

Red Delicious (a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide)

• DELICIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatly pleasing or entertaining

Synonyms:

delicious; delightful

Context example:

a delicious joke

Similar:

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Synonyms:

delectable; delicious; luscious; pleasant-tasting; scrumptious; toothsome; yummy

Similar:

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

 Context examples 

The river and the hills are delicious, and these glimpses of the narrow cross streets are my delight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It would be such a delicious scheme; and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By observing which of them were pecked by the birds we avoided all danger of poison and added a delicious variety to our food reserve.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To an unfortunate bachelor of a fellow who has lived alone all his life, you know, it's positively delicious.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The next few minutes were delicious.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dorothy went to get him, and saw such delicious fruit hanging from the branches that she gathered some of it, finding it just what she wanted to help out her breakfast.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It will feel delicious to be so valued.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Look, mother,” said the man, “at the beautiful bird that is singing so magnificently; and how warm and bright the sun is, and what a delicious scent of spice in the air!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)