The meaning of LUSCIOUS is having a delicious taste or smell : sweet. How to use luscious in a sentence. Did you know?
LUSCIOUS definition: 1. having a pleasant sweet taste or containing a lot of juice: 2. (of a woman) very sexually…. Learn more.
Definition of luscious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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 ...
lus cious (lush′ əs), adj. highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches. richly satisfying to the senses or the mind: the luscious style of his poetry. richly adorned; luxurious: luscious furnishings. arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous: a luscious figure. sweet to excess; cloying.
LUSCIOUS definition: highly pleasing to the taste or smell. See examples of luscious used in a sentence.
The Sichuan Wonton with Red Oil was once again luscious perfection (the sauce is too good to waste and so I add a few forkfuls of their (somehow) delicately seasoned plain white rice to soak up the sauce when done.
luscious definition: juicy and very good to eat. Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, and related words. Discover expressions like "luscious hair".