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Delicious vs Ambrosial - What's the difference?

delicious | ambrosial |

As adjectives the difference between delicious and ambrosial

is that delicious is pleasing to taste; tasty while ambrosial is (greek mythology) pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

delicious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pleasing to taste; tasty.
  • (colloquial) Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

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    Derived terms

    * deliciously * deliciousness * undelicious

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    ambrosial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour'd like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...].
  • Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.