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.
Calling something luscious means it's appealing and incredibly pleasing to the senses. That goes for good-looking people as well as a rich piece of chocolate cake.
luscious (adjective) luscious / ˈ lʌʃəs/ adjective Britannica Dictionary definition of LUSCIOUS [more luscious; most luscious] 1 : having a very appealing taste or smell : delicious
LUSCIOUS meaning: 1. having a pleasant sweet taste or containing a lot of juice: 2. (of a woman) very sexually…. Learn more.