Ambrosial

Definitions: Ambrosial

Ambrosial

Adjective

1. Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food".

2. Worthy of the gods.

Date "ambrosial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ambrosial \Am*bro"sial\, adjective. [Latin expression ambrosius, Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Ambrosial

Synonyms: ambrosian (adj), nectarous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Savoriness	Adjective: savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ambrosial

English words defined with "ambrosial": Amrita. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Ambrosial Flesh (reference) Sri Upadesamrta: The Ambrosial Advice of Sri Rupa Goswami (reference) The Ambrosial Hour (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ambrosial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambrosial" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "ambrosial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		много вкусен (delicious, scrumptious), ароматен (balmy, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, sapid, scented, spicy, sweet-scented), благоуханен (fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, redolent, scented). (various references)

German		duftend (balmily, fragrant, fragrantly, nice-smelling, odoriferously, odorous, scented). (various references)

Hungarian		ambrózia illatú, ambrózia ízű, ambrózia-, mennyei illatú, isteni illatú, csodás illatú. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambrosialay

Romanian		ambroziac. (various references)

Russian		неземной (empyreal, seraphic, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly). (various references)

Spanish		ambrosíaco. (various references)

Turkish		nefis (awfully nice, beautiful, beyond praise, dainty, delectable, delicious, delightly, excellent, exquisite, fine, marvellous, marvelous, peachy, scrumptious, stunning, yummy, yum-yum), mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), güzel tatlı. (various references)

Ukranian		чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), неземний (aery, celestial, heavenly, sky-born, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly, unworldly), божественний (airy, celestial, divine, godlike, godly, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernal, supernatural), прекрасний (admirable, adorable, beauteous, capital, delectable, delicious, fine, out of this world, something like, splendid, splendiferous). (various references)

Vietnamese		thần tiên, thơm tho như thức ăn của thần tiên xứng với thần tiên. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ambrosial": ambrosially. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ambrosial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abrosia, Abroziak, Amboseli, Ambracia, ambresia, ambresial, ambrogia, Ambroise, ambrosea, ambrosian, ambrozia, Ambroziak, Ambrozzi, amerasian, Androsia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ambrosial" (pronounced 'Am*bro"sial'): Castrensial, Controversial, Genesial, Hortensial, Indusial, mesial, Perimysial. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: ambrosia, mislabor.
	-2 letters: abomasi, abrosia, ambaris, baalism, bailors, basilar, bromals, oralism, solaria.
	-3 letters: abomas, aboral, alamos, alarms, ambari, amoral, aromas, baalim, bailor, balsam, borals, brails, brasil, broils, bromal, isobar, labors, lamias, libras, limbas, limbos, malars, mbiras, molars, morals, sailor, salami, sambar.
	-4 letters: aboil, aboma, abris, alamo, alarm, albas, alias, almas, ambos, amias, amirs, arias.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-o-r-s"
	+2 letters: ambrosially.
	+3 letters: ambulatories, amobarbitals, biomaterials, semiarboreal.
	+4 letters: abnormalities, ambassadorial, malabsorption, microbalances.
	+5 letters: antimicrobials, malabsorptions, perambulations, retinoblastoma.
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