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From Middle English delectable, from Middle French délectable, from Old French delectable, from Medieval Latin delectare (“to delight”). By surface analysis, delect +‎ -able. Piecewise doublet of delightable.

• (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɛktəbəl/, [dɪˈlɛktəbəɫ]

delectable (comparative more delectable, superlative most delectable)

1. Highly pleasing; delightful, especially to any of the senses; delicious.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:delectable.

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

• delectability

• delectableness

• delectably

• indelectable

• undelectable

pleasing to the taste; delicious — see also delightful

• Bikol:
  Central Bikol: managom
• Catalan: delectable, deliciós (ca)
• Dutch: lekker (nl), smakelijk (nl), verrukkelijk (nl)
• Finnish: herkullinen (fi), maukas (fi)
• French: délicieux (fr), savoureux (fr)
• German: köstlich (de), lecker (de)
• Macedonian: вку́сен (vkúsen), пре́красен (prékrasen)
• Māori: waireka, hūnene, whakawaiwai
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: deilig (no), lekker (no), kostelig
• Occitan: deliciós (oc)
• Polish: wyśmienity (pl), smakowity (pl)
• Portuguese: delicioso (pt), deleitoso (pt), deleitável
• Serbo-Croatian: ukusan (sh)
• Spanish: delicioso (es), delectable, deleitable
• Swedish: läcker (sv)

delectable (plural delectables)

1. Something that is delectable.
   • 2009 February 8, Gretchen Morgenson, “Bailout Needs Some Strings Attached to Limit Pay”, in New York Times‎[1]:
     These include such delectables as cars and drivers, country club memberships and personal use of corporate aircraft.