luscious

[ luhsh-uhs ]
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adjective
  1. highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.

  2. richly satisfying to the senses or the mind: the luscious style of his poetry.

  1. richly adorned; luxurious: luscious furnishings.

  2. arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous: a luscious figure.

  3. sweet to excess; cloying.

Origin of luscious

1
1375–1425; late Middle English lucius, unexplained variant of licius, aphetic variant of delicious

synonym study For luscious

1. See delicious.

Other words for luscious

Opposites for luscious

Other words from luscious

  • lus·cious·ly, adverb
  • lus·cious·ness, noun
  • o·ver·lus·cious, adjective
  • o·ver·lus·cious·ly, adverb
  • o·ver·lus·cious·ness, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for luscious

luscious

/ (ˈlʌʃəs) /


adjective
  1. extremely pleasurable, esp to the taste or smell

  2. very attractive

  1. archaic cloying

Origin of luscious

1
C15 lucius, licius, perhaps a shortened form of delicious

Derived forms of luscious

  • lusciously, adverb
  • lusciousness, noun

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