luscious
Americanadjective
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highly pleasing to the taste or smell.
luscious peaches.
- Synonyms:
- palatable, delectable
- Antonyms:
- unpalatable, disgusting
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richly satisfying to the senses or the mind.
the luscious style of his poetry.
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richly adorned; luxurious.
luscious furnishings.
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arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous.
a luscious figure.
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sweet to excess; cloying.
adjective
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extremely pleasurable, esp to the taste or smell
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very attractive
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archaic cloying
Related Words
See delicious.
Other Word Forms
- lusciously adverb
- lusciousness noun
- overluscious adjective
- overlusciously adverb
- overlusciousness noun
Etymology
Origin of luscious
1375–1425; late Middle English lucius, unexplained variant of licius, aphetic variant of delicious
Example Sentences
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Netscher has meticulously rendered the garment’s luscious materiality—its fall, folds, creases and bunchings—yet transcended mere description to give us a shimmering vision of white and gray highlighted by splashes of red.
Once you’ve secured your treats, head to Barnsdall Art Park, where you can relax on on a luscious lawn and take in a stunning view of the city.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of heading right back to Chantel’s place, they make one more stop at a sunlit supermarket with spacious nooks and exposed brick walls, where the shelves offer gourmet canned tomatoes and luscious produce.
From Salon
There’s a quality of intelligent feeling redolent of Rosalind in “As You Like It” in Wicks’ affecting characterization and luscious singing.
From Los Angeles Times
They live in stylish houses surrounded by luscious greenery, woodland, a meadow and a river.
From BBC
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