different between delicious vs appetise

English

Etymology

From Middle English delicious, from Anglo-Norman delicious, from Old French delicious, delicieux, from Late Latin d?lici?sus (“delicate, delicious”), from d?liciae (“delights”), plural of d?licia (“pleasure”), from delici? (“I allure, I entice”), from de- (“away”) + laci? (“I lure, I deceive”). Displaced native Middle English este (“delicious, favorable”) (from Old English ?ste (“delicious, dainty, luxurious, delicate”)), Middle English wunli, wunlic (“delicious, joyous”) (from Old English wynl?? (“pleasant, beautiful, joyful”)), Old English ?stel?c (“delicious, delicate, dainty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??l???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??l???s/, /di?l???s/

• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

1. Pleasing to taste; tasty.
2. (colloquial) Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

   The irony is delicious!

   • 1986, Patrick Lichfield, Courvoisier's Book of the Best (page 230)

     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?

3. (slang) Having tremendous sex appeal.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• leucosiid, lousicide

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin d?lici?sus, see above.

Adjective

delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular deliciouse)

1. delicious; tasty
2. noble; courtly; courteous

Declension

Descendants

• English: delicious
• French: délicieux

English

Alternative forms

• appetize

Etymology

Back-formation from appetising.

Verb

appetise (third-person singular simple present appetises, present participle appetising, simple past and past participle appetised)

1. (rare) To whet the appetite.