Other words for Delicious

Other words for Delicious!

Definition of Delicious

• There’s always a wide selection of delicious meals to choose from. 
• Pecan nuts are delicious both raw and cooked. 

• Acceptable
• Agreeable
• Ambrosial
• Ambrosia
• Amiable
• Amusing
• Appealing
• Great
• Appetizing
• Balmy
• Blissful
• Boon
• Canny
• Captivating
• Congenial
• Cool
• Delectable
• Delightful
• Delightsome
• Delish
• Delish (informal)
• Desirable
• Divine
• Engaging
• Enjoyable
• Enticing
• Exquisite
• Extremely pleasant/enjoyable
• Felicitous
• Finger-licking
• Flavorful
• Flavorful
• Flavorful
• Flavorsome
• Glad
• Glorious
• Good
• Goodly
• Good-tasting
• Graceful
• Gratifying
• Heartwarming
• Heavenly
• Inviting
• Jocund
• Jolly
• Joyous
• Juicy
• Lipid
• Likable
• Lovely
• Lovesome
• Luscious
• Marvelous
• Mellow
• Moreish
• Mouth-watering
• Neat
• Nectarous
• Nummy
• Nutty
• Palatable
• Peachy
• Peng
• Piquant
• Pleasant
• Pleasing
• Pleasurable
• Pretty
• Quaint
• Rapturous
• Ravishing
• Rich
• Rico
• Sainted
• Sapid
• Satisfactory
• Savory
• Savory
• Scented
• Scrummy
• Scrumptious
• Slick
• Smooth
• Snazzy
• Succulent
• Sweet
• Tasty
• Toothsome
• Unobjectionable
• Very palatable
• Well
• Winsome
• Yummy (informal)

Delicious synonyms with Examples

List 1

• Acceptable

She had continued her classes and was somehow maintaining acceptable grades.

• Agreeable

He’s a very agreeable young man. Traffic is one of the less agreeable aspects of city life.

• Ambrosial

Quaffing nectar at mess with gods golden dishes, all ambrosial.

• Ambrosian

He tasted only ambrosia, sweet beyond imagination.

• Amiable

She had an amiable personality, always ready with a kind word and a smile.

• Amusing

He’s one of the most amusing people I know.

• Appealing

It was even less appealing in the dark of the storm.

• Appetizing

Appetizing smells from the kitchen greeted the guests.

• Balmy

The weather was balmy, adding to the enjoyment of the day.

• Blissful

A blissful bright smile was fixed on the baby’s broad face with its toothless open mouth.

• Boon

You owe me a boon,” she said.

• Canny

The people of the town are honest, industrious, and very canny.

• Captivating

His eyes were captivating, by far the most attractive feature in his darkly handsome face.

• Congenial

We studied in the congenial atmosphere of the library.

• Cool

She woke to a cool dawn.

• Delectable

It was only, he assures us, at spare moments that he returned to the House Beautiful, the Delectable Mountains and the Enchanted Ground.

• Delightful

It was a delightful surprise

• Delightsome

His manor was so fair and so delightsome.

• Delish

We have just had a lovely day in the garden, quite HOT and sunny – simply delish!

List 2

• Desirable

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

• Engaging

His laugh was sudden and short, engaging the dimple.

• Enjoyable

He spent an enjoyable afternoon at the park.

• Enticing

He asked her to go back to Houston with him, enticing her with rides on the beach – and love all night.

• Exquisite

In the middle of the table sat an exquisite fall floral arrangement.

• Extremely pleasant/enjoyable

He spent an enjoyable afternoon at the park.

• Felicitous

His arguments were felicitous, and his choice of language was the theme of constant admiration.

• Finger-licking

The five-spice flavored chicken feet, however, are finger–licking good.

• Flavorful

The ocean’s calming rhythm and flavorful breeze made the beach more bearable.

• Flavorous

She served a Flavorous stew to her friends.

• Flavorful

Each Starbucks coffee is a flavorful reflection of its land of origin.

• Flavorsome

The flesh was tender but not particularly flavorsome.

• Glad

I’m glad you saved me the trouble.

• Glorious

He had a long and glorious military career.

List 3

• Good

She is such a good seamstress. It was a good thing they were going home tomorrow.

• Goodly

“it was a goodly city as large as London.”

• Good-tasting

I thought that was not in good taste.

• Graceful

She was a graceful young woman with delicate features.

• Gratifying

It is gratifying my dear, that you are sufficiently astute to recognize my skill and superiority.

• Heartwarming

The movie is a heartwarming story about a boy and his dog.

• Heavenly

It was a heavenly day. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!

• Inviting

Thank you for inviting me to your home.

• Jocund

Within a few months, he was his usual jocund self, and growing like an aurochs.

• Jolly

Dear me, how jolly we are!” said Rostov laughing.

• Joyous

The result was celebrated by joyous festivities in all the East.

• Juicy

They like juicy fruit to eat as well as people, and they are hungry.

List 4

• Likable

She’s very, very likable, and I’m thrilled to have her.

• Lovely

I looked my lovely future wife in the eye.

• Lovesome

This lovesome day abounds with legends.

• Luscious

So also, if well-swelled and luscious fruits, such as strawberries, are required, there must be no parching at the roots.

• Marvelous

Heaven is a perfectly marvelous place.

• Mellow

He was in a mellow mood.

• Moreish

It was delicious and very moreish and one which I’ll try to recreate at home.

• Mouth-watering

The prices are very affordable and the descriptions are mouthwatering.

• Neat

The handwriting on the letter was neat and feminine.

• Nectarous

It is a smooth luscious port with nectarous overtones.

• Nummy

There are recipes for green tomatoes that I’ve heard are quite nummy.

• Nutty

It’s another of his nutty ideas.

• Palatable

The snapper is at once the handsomest and most palatable of a good variety of sea fish

• Peachy

They were so human, their coloring peachy, the skin delicate.

• Peng

A corruption crackdown has netted officials with ties to top leaders such as Li Peng, but no one close to Jiang has been implicated.

• Piquant

He served the fish with a piquant sauce.

• Pleasant

Pleasant as it was, they had to go back.

List 5

• Pleasing

The architectural style is dignified and pleasing in design and proportions.

• Pleasurable

It was going to be much more pleasurable than she imagined.

• Pretty

Your aunt and uncle seem pretty fond of you.

• Quaint

His gentle courtesy and quaint speech won my heart.

• Rapturous

Her face shone with rapturous joy.

• Ravishing

That was the first time he had ever neglected to tell her how ravishing she was.

• Rich

There are a lot of rich people in this city.

Delicious Synonyms infographics

 

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