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luscious /ˈlʌʃəs /adjective1(Of food or drink) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste: a luscious and fragrant dessert wine...- Huge chocolate bars, fizzy drinks, luscious cakes and tempting sweets are in every shop.
- I blew out the candles on my twelfth birthday cake, indulging in the luscious chocolate taste.
- Now I am guessing that a sweeter Meyer lemon would make really sweet and luscious lemon tartelettes.
Synonyms delicious, succulent, lush, juicy, mouth-watering, sweet, tasty, flavourful, flavoursome, appetizing, delectable, palatable, toothsome, choice informal scrumptious, scrummy, yummy, moreish North American informal nummy literary ambrosial rare ambrosian, nectareous, nectarean 1.1Appealing strongly to the senses; pleasingly rich: the luscious brush strokes and warm colours of these late masterpieces...- Oil paint can be thinned to a watery consistency or brushed on with thick luscious strokes.
- Pottery and dyes are rich, luscious and seductive, marks of decadence and luxury.
- The four luscious colours and little brush ensure it's a winner.
1.2(Of a woman) very sexually attractive: he’ll fall for a luscious Spanish girl who can match him in passion...- She was luscious, there was no other way to put it.
- Here, we present 16 luscious females, each of whom has a tenuous link to football and ask: just who has the hottest totty?
- And I never told anyone, bar those luscious ladies, of it until now.
Synonyms sexy, sexually attractive, nubile, ravishing, gorgeous, desirable, alluring, sultry, sensuous, beautiful, stunning, attractive; voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, buxom informal beddable, fanciable, hot, curvy North American informal foxy, cute, bootylicious Australian/New Zealand informal spunky Derivativeslusciously /ˈlʌʃəsli / adverb ...- But if you smell fried chicken and doughnuts when you're walking down the street and hungry, you're going to want something lusciously fatty.
- The roasted red and yellow peppers, zucchini, eggplant and asparagus were just so, and the heady porcini mushroom risotto underlying it all was lusciously creamy.
- I did have a problem getting the cheeses really emulsified, and instead of lusciously coating my pasta, they clumped up a bit.
lusciousness /ˈlʌʃəsnəs / noun ...- ‘This one,’ I said, picking up the largest round sable brush in the box and running its lovely, sexy, begging-for-water lusciousness over my fingers.
- Although it was a film made with great care and had a visual lusciousness and style all its own, I have to confess that because things did move quite slowly, I went to sleep.
- The lusciousness of solitude is a pleasure I subscribe to.
OriginLate Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete licious, shortened form of delicious. delicious from Middle English: This comes from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae ‘delight, pleasure’. Luscious (Late Middle English) may be an alteration of delicious.
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