delicious
highly pleasing, especially to taste
Roots
- -ous / -ious: full of or marked by a quality
- de-: down, away, reversal, reduction, or removal
- delect / delic: delight, pleasure, charm, or lure
Other words with the delect / delic root
- delectable: delightful or delicious
- delight: pleasure or joy
- dilettante: a person with a shallow or amateur interest in an art or field
Delicious is pleasure you can taste; it keeps the delect / delic family concrete.
The soup was delicious enough to stop the conversation for a moment.