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DELICIOUS
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I. (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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greatly pleasing or entertaining
Example:
a delicious joke
Synonyms:
delicious; delightful
Classified under:
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
Classified under:
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Context examples:
Her actions had passed beyond the control of her will—she never thought of control or will in the delicious madness that was upon her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
How we bathed our poor bodies in its delicious warmth, reviving like bugs and crawling things after a storm.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His nerves had become blunted, numb, while his mind was filled with weird visions and delicious dreams.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
They possessed a delightful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every luxury; they had a fire to warm them when chill and delicious viands when hungry; they were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another’s company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half, slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was hot; and after walking some time over the gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three together, they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of a broad short avenue of limes, which stretching beyond the garden at an equal distance from the river, seemed the finish of the pleasure grounds.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
With the Musgroves, there was the happy chat of perfect ease; with Captain Harville, the kind-hearted intercourse of brother and sister; with Lady Russell, attempts at conversation, which a delicious consciousness cut short; with Admiral and Mrs Croft, everything of peculiar cordiality and fervent interest, which the same consciousness sought to conceal; and with Captain Wentworth, some moments of communications continually occurring, and always the hope of more, and always the knowledge of his being there.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I have to inform you, my dearest Fanny, that Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you; that he had a delightful walk with you to the dockyard last Saturday, and one still more to be dwelt on the next day, on the ramparts; when the balmy air, the sparkling sea, and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony, and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in retrospect.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Amy hastily shook out half a dozen and laid the rest down before Mr. Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
So, the close of every week was a delicious time for me; and I got through the rest of the week by looking forward to it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
