What's the difference between delicious and tasty?

Delicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
  • (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
  • (3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (4) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
  • (5) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (6) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
  • (7) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
  • (8) 55 min: Maggio plays a delicious ball down the inside-right channel to release Di Natale in the box.
  • (9) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (10) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (11) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (12) The video camera installation, with the clarity of the colours and the contrast between the scenes of winter and summer, is just delicious.
  • (13) Today, I’m more likely to look up a recipe by a celebrity chef and prepare a delicious family dinner while my wife fixes the lawnmower and unblocks a drain.
  • (14) Ryse offers high-octane spectacle – the quick-time kill moves are particularly delicious – but in terms of its gameplay, it's a little hit and miss.
  • (15) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.
  • (16) Just email cook@theguardian.com with "get-togethers" in the subject line and tell us what you've got planned.For each get-together we feature, the host will receive a selection of delicious Hotel Chocolat chocolates.
  • (17) Owner Sergio has 15 artisanal beers on the menu every week and serves very generous G&Ts and delicious Aperol Spritz.
  • (18) The equaliser was slickly constructed, the ball shifted smartly from left to right at pace with home defenders lunging in but unable to intercept, before Mohamed Salah curled a delicious shot beyond Petr Cech.
  • (19) No, it has made it more delicious.” I, like the overwhelming majority of those who work in palliative care, am opposed to this bill – not on religious grounds, but out of concern for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.
  • (20) So perhaps delicious Istria has been hiding in plain sight.

Tasty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
  • (n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Internet search advertising is set to remain buoyant, with a tasty 25% growth rate.
  • (2) If you buy your tarragon from a garden centre, beware of that rather bitter, dragonish impostor, A. dracunculoides, or Russian tarragon, which is a much less refined and tasty thing.
  • (3) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (4) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
  • (5) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
  • (6) We don't know too many cardinals, but we know what she means: this is gloriously tasty food, to be cooked for those you really love.
  • (7) Naive boy from the country moves to the big city and things go wrong.” We are drinking herbal tea and eating (very tasty) vegetables in Moby’s newly opened vegan restaurant in blue-skied Los Angeles.
  • (8) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
  • (9) Slovakia, not starring revelation Vladimir Weiss Jnr., or indeed Sestak, but at least tasty former Chelsea winger Miroslav Stoch comes in: Mucha, Pekarik, Skrtel, Durica, Zabavnik, Hamsik, Strba, Kucka, Stoch, Vittek, Jendrisek.
  • (10) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
  • (11) After another two kilometres down the boulevard is the Something Good roadhouse for a tasty burger and shake to-go.
  • (12) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
  • (13) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
  • (14) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
  • (15) Tasty fruits and vegetables were given to patients to eat before major meals for better nutrient adherence and adequacy.
  • (16) If I'm out, I can guarantee she will not have left me anything nutritious and tasty in the oven.
  • (17) Lukaku was denied a second by Allsop after Seamus Coleman delivered a tasty cross from the right but Bournemouth’s pressure continued to build, their belief never wavering.
  • (18) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
  • (19) The women evaluated margarine less "tasty" but "lighter", and "healthier" than butter.
  • (20) There’s tasty tapas too – olives marinated with oranges and lemons, cheese with homemade marmalade and salchichón salami, great paired with local Moscatel wine.