Hyphenation of delicious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word delicious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

de-li-cious

Definitions of delicious:

1.	Variety of sweet eating apples
2.	Greatly pleasing or entertaining A delightful surprise The comedy was delightful A delicious joke
3.	Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Synonyms of delicious:

adj	delightful, pleasing
adj	delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy, tasteful
noun	Delicious, eating apple, dessert apple

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.