different between gratifying vs delicious
gratifying
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ræt?fa?.??/
- Hyphenation: grat?i?fy?ing
Verb
gratifying
- present participle of gratify
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delicious
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)
- Pleasing to taste; tasty.
- (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?
- (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)
- delicious; tasty
- noble; courtly; courteous
Declension
Descendants
- English: delicious
- French: délicieux
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