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Delicious vs Delinquent - What's the difference?

delicious | delinquent |

As adjectives the difference between delicious and delinquent

is that delicious is pleasing to taste; tasty while delinquent is late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

As a noun delinquent is

one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.

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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    delinquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
    • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

    • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

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