Luscious

Definition: Luscious

Luscious

Adjective

1. Having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman".

2. Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Note: Luscious \Lus"cious\, adjective. [Probably for lustious, from lusty, or perhaps corruption of luxurious. Compare to Lush, Lusty.]. (references)

Synonyms: Luscious

Pain

Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual.

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.

Crosswords: Luscious

Sir Luscious got gator belts and patty melts and Monte Carlo's (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

Luscious Lesbians (1967)

Red Shoe Diaries 14: Luscious Lola (2000)

The Luscious Baker Girls (1990)

Luscious Lucy in Love (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Basic Baking: Everything You Need to Know to Start Baking plus 101 Luscious Dessert Recipes that Anyone Can Make (reference)

• Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: 200 Luscious, Low-Fat Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Puddings, and Other Desserts You Thought You Could Never Eat Again (reference)

• Lean and Luscious (reference)

• Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives (World of Language) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Luscious (reference)

• Penthouse: Luscious Ladies (reference)

• Red Shoe Diaries- Luscious Lola (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), i shijshëm (appetizing, delicate, delicious, enjoyable, goluptious, nutty, palatable, sapid, Savory, savoury, scrumptious, succulent, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتنة, ‏مشهي, ‏توعد (bluster, impend, menace, overhang, threaten), ‏زكي الرائحة (racy), ‏طيب المذاق (dainty, good taste, tasteful, yummy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силно ароматен, наситен с чувственост, много сладък (rich), претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry), прекалено сладък (sugary), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

色情 (erogenous, Eros, Erotic, Pornography). (various references)

Czech

lahodný (appetizing, dainty, delicious, delightful, gentle, nutty, Savory, suave, sweet, yummy), přesládlý (saccharine). (various references)

Farsi 

لذیذ (Delectable, Palatable, Pleasurable, Toothsome, Yummy), خوشمزه (Delicate, Tasty, Toothsome, Yummy), شیرین (Amiable, Soft, Sugary, Sweet), شهوت انگیز (Lascivious, Lusty, Sexy, Voluptuous), دلپذیر (Amiable, Graceful, Gracious, Handsome, Kindly, Lief, Lovely, Mellow, Melodious, Nice, Palatable, Scrumptious). (various references)

French

succulent (lush), séduisant, appétissant. (various references)

German

lecker (appetizing, daintily, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicately, delicious, leakier, lovely, mouth-watering, nice, palatable, Savory, savoury, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy), üppig (abundant, ample, elaborate, exuberant, fat, immensely rich, lavish, lavishly, lusciously, lush, luxuriant, luxuriantly, luxurious, opulent, profuse, profusely, rampant, rank, rich, rolling in money, sumptuous, sumptuously, thick, voluptuous, wanton, wantonly). (various references)

Greek 

γλυκύτατοσ, χυμώδησ (chymous, juicy, sappy, squashy), εύγευστοσ (palatable). (various references)

Hebrew 

טעים מאו�" (delicious). (various references)

Hungarian

zamatos (fruity, juicy, racy, relishable, Savory, savoury, spicy, succulent), kéjes (erotic, lascivious, sensual, voluptuous), buja (concupiscent, concupisible, erotic, exuberant, gross, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxuriant, pornerastic, prurient, rampant, rich, salacious, wanton), ízes (racy, relishable, sapid, savoury, snappy, spicy, tasty, toothsome), mézédes (as sweet as honey, mellifluent, mellifluous), lédús (juicy, succulent), dagályos (bombast, bombastic, effusive, flatulent, grandiloquent, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouth-filling, pompous, puffed-up, ranting, redundant, stilted), émelygős (nauseating, nauseous, squeamish), édes illatú, édes ízű (to taste sweet), édes (ducky, dulcet, gentle, soft, suave, sweet, tender, to taste sweet). (various references)

Italian

succulento (appetising, appetizing, succulent), profumato (fragrant, odoriferous, redolent, scented, sweet), dolce (bland, cake, dessert, fresh, gentle, Goody, honeyed, mild, pudding, smooth, soft, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle, tuck), delizioso (delectable, delicious, delightful, lovely, rapturing, scrumptious, yummy). (various references)

Korean 

감미� . (various references)

Manx

millish (balmy, darling, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, sugary, sweet), menoyr (goodly, mealy, rich). (various references)

Norwegian

lekker (dainty), saftig (juicy). (various references)

Pig Latin

usciouslay.(various references)

Portuguese

voluptuoso (high-sounding, lecherous, luxurious, sensual, voluptuous), suculento (fleshy, juicy, lush, pappy, pulpy, sappy, succulent, tender, tops), saboroso (dainty, delicious, flavored, flavoured, nice, palatable, sapid, savory, savoury, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy), melado (honeyed, molasses), delicioso (charming, delectable, delicious, delightful, delightsome, fragrant, goluptious, lovely, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy), adocicado (mellow, sugary), açucarado (sugary). (various references)

Romanian

zemos (juicy), suculent (juicy, succulent, toothsome), savuros (chaming, pleasant, racy, relishing, sapid, Savory, savoury, tasty), mãlãieţ (mellow, spineless), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), delicios (charming, dainty, darling, delicate, delicious, palatable, Savory, savoury), atrãgãtor (alluring, attractive, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, magnetic, pleasing, prepossessing, seemly, sweet, taking, winning, winsome), înzorzonat, încãrcat (alive, busy, close, foul, heavy, inflated, laden, loaded, painty, strained). (various references)

Russian 

сладкий (dulcet, honeyed, sugary, sweet, syrupy), лакомый (lickerish), перегруженный (loaded, overbusy, overladen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukusan (appetizing, delicious, lickerish, palatable, sapid, savory, savoury, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy), sočan (juicy, lush, mellow, pulpy, sappy, succulent), sladak (cute, delectable, mellifluent, mellifluous, sleek, sweet). (various references)

Spanish

delicioso (delectable, delicious, delightful, lovely, lush). (various references)

Swedish

ljuvlig (cheery, delectable, delightful, dulcet, exquisite, heavenly, lovely), läcker (dainty, delicate, delicious, far out, goluptious, juicy, nice, tasty, toothsome, yummy). (various references)

Thai

ยั่วยวน (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), หอมหวาน. (various references)

Turkish

lezzetli (dainty, delicate, delicious, goluptious, palatable, sapid, Savory, savoury, succulent, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy, zestful), tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), ağız sulandıran. (various references)

Ukrainian

соковитий і солодкий, нудотний (emetic, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly), ароматний (balmy, balsamic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, nosey, odorant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, scented). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngọt ng� o; thơm ngát; ngon l� nh ngọt quá, khêu gợi (coquettish, rousing, tempting, voluptuous). (various references)

Welsh

pe+r (aromatic, delicious, sweet). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "luscious": lusciously, lusciousness, lusciousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Luscious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lescaut, Loscious, lusiads, lustious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coulis, oculus, sulcus.

-3 letters: coils, cusso, locus, louis, lusus, oculi, silos, soils, solus, souls, sulci, sulus.

-4 letters: coil, cols, coss, cuss, loci, loss, oils, sics, silo, soil, soli, sols, soul, sous, sulu, ulus.

-5 letters: cis, col, cos, lis, oil, sic, sis, sol, sos, sou, ulu.

+2 letters: lusciously, scurrilous.

+4 letters: auspiciously, furunculosis, incestuously, jurisconsult, lusciousness, multicourses, scrupulosity, scurrilously, sequaciously, supercilious, suspiciously, tuberculosis.

+5 letters: auscultations, conspicuously, jurisconsults, ludicrousness, perspicuously, promiscuously, scrumptiously, unconsciously.