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adjective, tast·i·er, tast·i·est.

good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.

Informal. having or showing good taste; tasteful.

Origin:
1610–20; taste + -y¹

Related forms

tast·i·ly, adverb

tast·i·ness, noun

un·tast·i·ly, adverb

un·tast·y, adjective

Can be confused: tasteful, tasty.

Synonyms
1. delicious, delectable, toothsome, appetizing. See palatable.

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Seared cabbage is so tasty it is almost addictive.

Fromage, you may be famous forever, but not in a tasty way.

Cadbury's success in realigning its business makes it a tasty target.

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Seared cabbage is so tasty it is almost addictive.

Fromage, you may be famous forever, but not in a tasty way.

Cadbury's success in realigning its business makes it a tasty target.

Craft some fortune cookies, a sweet snack, or even some tasty treats for your cat or dog.

As the holidays approach, so do tasty treats laden with calories, many of them provided by fat.

And tasty viceroy butterflies are safe from birds because they resemble monarchs, which are unpalatable.

Tasty short ribs, browned and slow-cooked in a single.

They produce a quick, tasty cuppa superior to anything that.

Wilson cooked about two pounds the first night and it was indeed quite tasty.

Our cafeterias have really tasty pizzas at every meal.

The cicada is also tasty to fellow animals-which is precisely the point of its extraordinary life-cycle.

Studying spices is a tasty way for students to learn about natural resources, trade, and our use of international products.

Rats given a choice between highly sweetened water and intravenous cocaine overwhelmingly favored the tasty beverage.

And for the animals that fed on them, dinosaur eggs were tasty packages of protein.

Celebrate the year of the pig with festive, tasty foods symbolizing luck and goodwill.

Brewing coffee is fairly simple and yields powerful, yet tasty cups.

Eating more vegetables can be as easy as putting out a candy dish, and as tasty as candy itself.

It is always craving new and more tasty morsels-which may not be the best, or truest, things for anyone's digestion.

The reflections of the clicks they generate tell them whether anything nearby might make a tasty meal.

But the history of this cool treat is full of great moments and tasty trivia.

Dieters are engaged in a constant battle between losing weight and eating tasty food.

Use your own ingenuity to convert every bit of food into a healthful, tasty dish.

Chicken thighs braised with lemon, olives, and garlic make a quick and tasty meal.

Here are the three key elements for brewing your own tasty cuppa.

The convenience of a fridge stocked with cold, tasty meat to be repurposed with a minimum of fuss.

The university is looking for more-efficient carbon-filtration units that produce water tasty enough for the public.

These little brewers are so tasty that big ones are lining up to swallow them.

They also use stones to smash open tasty nuts and employ leaves as sponges to soak up drinking water.

The entire arrangement makes it easy for this bifocal fish to spot a tasty bug flying above the water, or a bit of algae below.

Those tasty larvae were destined to become plain brown moths.

Mounded with pickled onions and tender prosicutto, this tasty open-faced sandwich is perfect for eating with a knife.

Sauerkraut is a tasty and nutritious addition to the bratwurst boiling mixture and is festive as a garnish.

If your stuffing is tasty enough, it won't matter that it doesn't have drippings, and the non-vegans can add gravy to it anyway.

One way to tackle dietary conservatism is to concoct tasty new recipes.

These small mammals must always be wary of predators because they are tasty morsels with few natural defenses, save flight.

Bananas hanging on a tree or sitting in the produce section of the grocery store start out green, plenty hard and none too tasty.

And readers never tired of the joy of having something tasty to eat when having little or nothing to eat was more often the case.

Cook it hot and rare, and you'll have a versatile meat for a roster of tasty dishes.

Boy, we've got some frighteningly tasty reviews for your plastic pumpkins this week.

Early on there were plenty of predators who saw us as tasty bags of protein.

Hershey's is truly vile, but peanut butter cups are quite tasty.

Yes, word gets around when the food's tasty and easy on the pocketbook.

Other tasty and healthy alternatives to cow's milk include those made from rice, almonds, oats-and even hemp.

As weird as it was, ribeye on a stick was pretty tasty.

Try it with spinach and tomatoes, avocado and wontons, or a tasty new.

It's tasty enough and unusual enough to warrant making once.

Maybe this fruit could be a small as a blueberry and as tasty as bubblegum.

Baleen helps the gray whale, and other baleen whales, strain tasty morsels of food from the seawater.

Male nursery web spiders lure mates with silk-wrapped offerings, only some of which contain tasty treats.

It was a tasty drink, but in no way does a martini qualify as health food.

If your usual chicken recipes are in need of an upgrade, these tasty meals are sure to put the pep back in your poultry fast.

Brewing coffee is fairly simple and yields powerful, tasty cups.

As long as they let us wrestle with each other for those tasty oil dollars, we'll be fine.

When that happens, it tries to bluff its way out of becoming a tasty treat.

Kills everything while the food stays chrisp and tasty.

The cookies also sound tasty and worthy of replication.

Sticky sweet replaces blazing buffalo with these tasty wings.

Then they installed a slick body kit, the requisite carbon fiber goodies and slathered it in tasty red paint.

The durian is a tasty fruit, but there's a big problem.

With that kind of exposure, some bugs are bound to figure out how to turn these potential toxins into a tasty snack.

They have a wonderful and tasty selection of beef to choose from.

They slither through the forest, looking for animals that might make a tasty snack.

If it isn't tasty and profitable, it's not going to happen.

The varieties described here either fail to fruit at all or bear fruit that is more decorative than tasty.

When it comes to a tasty treat, nothing is off limits for man's best friend.

The tasty bivalves are known for removing excess phytoplankton from water and sequestering nutrients in their shells and flesh.

Its anise or licorice scented leaves make a tasty tea.

Their raspy tongues can clean a bone of every last tasty morsel.

Capibaras have a solid reputation of being tasty to eat.

Paysanne offers creamy caramels, homemade popsicles, and tasty cookies.

These tasty gifts can be eaten once the spirits have had their fill.

Without doubt i prefer home made food, tasty and healthy.

The key to successful grilling is starting with a tasty cut of meat.

One of the two roadside restaurants is serving paca-a large rodent that is remarkably tasty fried.

At the top end of the scale are crabs with foot-long legs and tasty lobsters.

Corms are reportedly tasty to baboons, hence the plant's common name.

These pictures show some of the park's critters enjoying carved pumpkins as a tasty snack instead of decorations.

The birds get tangled in longline hooks, which are baited with squid and other tasty morsels.

See how a chimpanzee wields a stick to get to honey and how the right twist of a stem can mean a tasty meal of termites.

Bolt it to a chimp cage, so that the ape will have to get creative to retrieve the tasty snack.

When it spots a tasty treat, the dragonfly swoops down and catches its prey in the basket.

The authors hypothesize that a balance between these receptors changes a rat's motivation for tasty food.

Bathe in an icy lake and share a tasty supper of moose meat.

They conveniently forget this when the tasty burger arrives or when they wear shoes made by child labor.

One must-try is the bourbon buffalo meatloaf, an enticing and tasty union.

And the vinyl's grooves poured out soulful singers, playful highlife guitarists, and tasty local percussion.

For as tasty as that sweet-and-sour pork may be, eating meat is an incredibly inefficient way to feed oneself.

They are working hard to make life on planet earth tasty and good.

But biting off a chunk of tasty mucous means the larger fish may flee-so one mischievous cleaner can deprive another from a meal.

The dragonfly larva becomes food for a fish, which provides a tasty meal for a raccoon.

If other animals had killed the lion, she said, the tasty viscera would have been long gone by the time the early humans arrived.

But beware: while there's good fungus among us, the tasty porcini has some poisonous cousins.

For a predator, juicy caterpillars make tasty snacks.

Moreover, some fishermen claimed they could catch a hundred of the tasty fish in an hour.

On land, they pluck mice and insects from their hiding places and raid nests for tasty eggs.

There are a lot of great things that are tasty and healthy.

They use this trunk to grab branches and clean them of leaves or to help pluck tasty fruit.

Mead, a maker of baby formula, should make a tasty target for several food companies.

Finger-lickin' sweet replaces blazing buffalo as the flavorings for these tasty wings.

Try this tasty salad instead of grilled corn on the cob.

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World English Dictionary

tasty (ˈteɪstɪ)

—*adj* , tastier, tastiest
1.	having a pleasant flavour
2.	informal (Brit) attractive: used chiefly by men when talking of women
3.	informal (Brit) skilful or impressive: she was a bit tasty with a cutlass
4.	(NZ) (of cheddar cheese) having a strong flavour

'tastily

—*adv*

'tastiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

tasty

1610s, from taste (n.) + -y (2); in late 18c. it also could mean "tasteful, elegant" (from the secondary sense of taste (n.)).

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