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delicious

Best crossword clue

"Very tasty"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted cdeiilosuStarts with DEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. greatly pleasing or entertaining

Word origin

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. Displaced native Old English ārlīċ (“delicious”).

Used in a sentence

  • The irony is delicious!
  • But the houses are so delicious and the way they're townscaped on to hilly bits is absolutely wonderful.
  • Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?

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