KJV Dictionary Definition: delicious

delicious

DELICIOUS, a.

1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.

2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.

deliciously

DELICIOUSLY, adv. In a delicious manner; in a manner to please the taste or gratify the mind; sweetly; pleasantly; delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

deliciousness

DELICIOUSNESS, n.

1. The quality of being delicious, or very grateful to the taste or mind; as the deliciousness of a repast.

2. Delight; great pleasure.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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