Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sweet and pleasant to taste or smell: synonym: delicious.
- adjective Richly appealing to the senses or the mind.
- adjective Having strong sensual or sexual appeal; attractive.
- adjective Archaic Excessively sweet; cloying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very sweet, succulent, or savory; delicious; very pleasant to taste; hence, extremely pleasing to any of the senses or to the mind; enticingly delightful.
- Sweet or rich so as to cloy or nauseate; sweet to excess; hence, unctuous; fulsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
- adjective Cloying; fulsome.
- adjective rare Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
sweet andpleasant ;delicious - adjective
sexually appealing ;seductive - adjective
obscene
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
- adjective having strong sexual appeal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Splendid materials -- materials that the hand of an artist would make luscious -- egad, sir; _luscious_ -- utterly ruined in the handling.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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When we moved in luscious purple grapes hung from them ... last yr not such luck.
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Out mid-October: a biopic on Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, shot in luscious black and white by renowned photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn.
Boing Boing 2007
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I feel a little bit like a commercial using the word luscious, but this cup of custardy tofu, dressed with a thin layer of light soy sauce really was luscious.
Archive 2007-11-01 tannaz 2007
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I feel a little bit like a commercial using the word luscious, but this cup of custardy tofu, dressed with a thin layer of light soy sauce really was luscious.
Izayoi: Come for the Food tannaz 2007
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Bock beer is of a darker colour than the common lager, and possesses a certain luscious flavour, being spiced with an infusion of coriander or some such aromatic seed.
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My seven-year-old daughter, who'd only consented to make this Swedish journey when told she'd be sleeping in a real farmhouse, pronounced her peanut butter and jelly sandwich "luscious" -- an adjective she usually reserves for things like pink and green breakfast cereals.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Sichuan Wonton with Red Oil was once again luscious perfection (the sauce is too good to waste and so I add a few forkfuls of their (somehow) delicately seasoned plain white rice to soak up the sauce when done.
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But on his end, the marriage plummets quickly from him preening about landing someone another character calls "luscious" to displays of intense, irrational jealousy.
News - chicagotribune.com Steve Johnson 2012
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However pleasant it may be to the palate while we are feeding on it, it is sure to leave a bitter relish behind it; and so far, indeed, it may be called a luscious morsel, that the most greedy appetites are soon glutted, and the most eager longing for it is soon turned into loathing and repentance.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
thesaraheffect commented on the word luscious
I absolutely despise this word. If there is any word that evokes a response more far (further?) removed from its definition than this word, I have yet to find it!
September 17, 2009