del.icio.usとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/, /diˈlɪʃ.əs/, /dəˈlɪʃ.əs/
• 韻: -ɪʃəs

形容詞

delicious (comparative more delicious, superlative most delicious)

1. Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 120:

     It was quite dark by the time Tarzan had gorged himself. Ah, but it had been delicious! Never had he quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served him, and in the bottom of his savage heart there had constantly been the craving for the warm meat of the fresh kill, and the rich, red blood.

2. (colloquial, figurative) Pleasing to a person's 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.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

派生語

アナグラム

• leucosiid, lousicide