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Delectable vs Sumptuous - What's the difference?

delectable | sumptuous |

As adjectives the difference between delectable and sumptuous

is that delectable is pleasing to the taste; delicious while sumptuous is magnificent, luxurious, splendid.

As a noun delectable

is something fitting the above description.

delectable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pleasing to the taste; delicious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also , yummy, good

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something fitting the above description.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Gretchen Morgenson, title=Bailout Needs Some Strings Attached to Limit Pay, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=These include such delectables as cars and drivers, country club memberships and personal use of corporate aircraft. }}

    sumptuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
  • * 1764 , :
    • Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
    He sees his little lot the lot of all;
    Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
    To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
    No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
    To make him loathe his vegetable meal;
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1829 , author= , title=The Alhambra citation , passage=I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Cabaye pulled all the strings in a dominant home performance and capped a majestic individual display with a sumptuous first-time finish into the far corner for his second goal of the afternoon.}}

    Synonyms

    * lavish

    Derived terms

    * sumption * sumptuary * sumptuousness