Luscious
['lʌʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
(a.) Cloying; fulsome.
(a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.
Editor: Thea
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Honeyed, excessively sweet.[2]. Delicious, savory, palatable, grateful.
Typed by Deirdre
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sweet, delicious, sugary, honied, delightful, toothsome, delightsome
ANT:Sour, sharp, tart, bitter
Inputed by Jesse
Definition
adj. sweet in a great degree: delightful: fulsome as flattery.—adv. Lusc′iously.—n. Lusc′iousness.
Checker: Zachariah
Examples
- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There stood Tarzan, his arms filled with ripe and luscious fruit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Also I enjoyed luscious fruits and vegetables, but not a single article of food which was exactly similar to anything on Earth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Imagine his amazement to find clinging to his fingers a substance most luscious to the taste, and most gratifying to the palate! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Zachariah