luscious
Adjective Satellite
- having strong sexual appeal
- extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
Adj
- Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
- Sexually appealing; seductive.
- Obscene.
Adjective
- Having a rich, sweet, and pleasing taste or smell.
Examples
- That LUSCIOUS triple-word score tasted like victory.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
delectable, delicious, juicy, pleasant-tasting, red-hot, scrumptious, toothsome, voluptuous, yummy, alluring, ambrosial, appetizing, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy, bonable, bonerific, buff, dainty, delish, desirable, doable, dreamy, effable, exquisite, fanciable, fappable, fapworthy, fine, finger-lickin' good, fit, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, fuckable, gorgeous, gustful, hittable, horny, hot, humpable, lekker, lickerish, lip-smacking, luscious, moreish, mouthwatering, nummy, ono, out of this world, palatable, peng, provocative, raunchy, rootable, salacious, sapid, savory, screwable, scrumdiddlyumptious, scrummy, seductive, sensual, sexable, sexalicious, sexy, shaggable, swoonsome, tasteful, tasty, to die for, toothful
Scrabble Score: 10
luscious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordluscious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
luscious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary