Meaning & use
delicious
Having a highly pleasant taste or smell, especially of food.
See it in a sentence
The soup smelled so delicious that everyone rushed to the kitchen before dinner was even announced.
She baked a delicious chocolate cake for her brother's birthday party last weekend.
A note on using this word
Delicious usually describes food or drink; using it for other pleasures, like a delicious irony, is a figurative extension worth using sparingly.
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