Luscious

//ˈlʌʃəs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sweet and pleasant; delicious.

    "Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks."

  2. 2
    Sexually appealing; seductive.

    "With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature."

  3. 3
    Obscene.

    "Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having strong sexual appeal wordnet
  2. 2
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste wordnet

Synonyms

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toothsomedelicioustastytoothsomeadorableagreeable

Antonyms

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tasty

Example

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"Where is that luscious aroma coming from?"

Etymology

From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52). An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.

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