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Delicious vs Malicious - What's the difference?

delicious | malicious |

As adjectives the difference between delicious and malicious

is that delicious is pleasing to taste; tasty while malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.

delicious

English

Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * deliciously * deliciousness * undelicious

    Anagrams

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    malicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
  • spiteful and deliberately harmful
    • He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms

    * malevolent * evil * See also

    Derived terms

    * maliciously * maliciousness * malicious mischief