| 单词 | appetizing |
| 释义 | appetizing (once / 5407 pages) adj Something that's appetizing looks or smells like it would taste delicious. An appetizing plate of cheesy nachos might make your mouth water. Use the adjective appetizing when you talk about food that's tempting or makes you hungry. The smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies is appetizing, and so is the summertime aroma of your neighbor's grill. Appetizing comes from the noun appetite, or "craving for food," from the Old French apetit, "appetite or desire." The Latin root is appetere, "long for, strive for, or grasp at." WORD FAMILYappetizing: appetizingly, appetizingness, unappetizing+/appetiser: appetisers/appetising: appetisingly, appetisingness, unappetising/appetite: appetiser, appetising, appetites, appetitive, appetizer, appetizing/appetizer: appetizers/unappetising: unappetisingness/unappetizing: unappetizingly, unappetizingness USAGE EXAMPLESThe vegetables from cooking the broth are tasty but not bright and fresh enough to be appetizing in soup. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) The Thanksgiving Day lineup of N.F.L. games should be fairly appetizing. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) As appetizing as turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce piled high in a roll may sound, it’s not enough to pull shoppers off the streets. Time(Nov 21, 2016) adj appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma Syn|Ant appetising mouth-watering, savory, savoury pleasing to the sense of taste palatable, toothsomeacceptable to the taste or mind tastypleasing to the sense of taste unappetising, unappetizing not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste unpalatablenot pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind tastypleasing to the sense of taste |
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