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单词 luscious
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Definition of luscious in English:

luscious

adjective ˈlʌʃəsˈləʃəs
  • 1(of food or drink) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste.

    a luscious and fragrant dessert wine
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This had a lovely smell of passion fruit when cut open, and a sweet luscious taste of the fruit as promised.
    • Huge chocolate bars, fizzy drinks, luscious cakes and tempting sweets are in every shop.
    • Marvel at the luscious chocolate cream you have created.
    • She ran towards her bedside and took a large bite of a juicy luscious apple and looked outside the window.
    • I'd forgotten I couldn't indulge myself in luscious food.
    • It tastes like a luscious milkshake, only it's guilt-free!
    • A sublime combination of a luscious honey and apricot succulence with crisp, cleaned-edged acidity explodes onto your palate.
    • Those events are to the season what a savory appetizer and luscious dessert are to a fine meal.
    • Anorexics are under increased pressure to eat whilst bulimics feel there is too much in the way of exotic and luscious foods on offer.
    • The 1999 is a peppery, luscious wine of considerable complexity and intensity.
    • In Europe - Germany, Alsace and Italy, the best Pinot Gris are oily, sweetish, full-bodied luscious wines.
    • Everyone seemed to be having a grand time dancing and socializing and sampling the luscious foods that spread out on a table that took up one wall of the gigantic ballroom.
    • One of the things I made was this luscious chocolate cake.
    • I blew out the candles on my twelfth birthday cake, indulging in the luscious chocolate taste.
    • The wash is as heavy as the lead weight bottle, the perfectly ripe handpicked fruit is luscious with plum, chocolate and spicy touches.
    • A succulent roast with herbs and mushrooms and other extremely luscious foods.
    • This also took me away from the Alliance Française, where their Café des Amis serves a luscious coffee, rich and caramel-like in flavour.
    • It is a luxuriously big Cabernet Sauvignon-driven wine, with heavy luscious fruit and firm, but supple tannins.
    • When Nathan spoke, Isabelle looked up from the sweet, luscious dessert she was devouring and found his unfathomable gray eyes studying her with interest.
    • 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. 1.1 Appealing strongly to the senses; pleasingly rich.
      the luscious brush strokes and warm colours of these late masterpieces
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Think Roja and you would think gorgeous smile, luscious lips, limitless joy.
      • In front of the Cajun was a very pretty girl in yellow, with waist-length, wavy hair of luscious caramel, and eyes of sparkling amber.
      • Sure, they were beautiful and had a luscious aroma.
      • Hanging over the luscious Vietnamese countryside that forms the backdrop to the film is a great big cock.
      • 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.
      • I asked cockily, with my eyes fixed on a girl with thick, luscious black hair.
      • Her soft and luscious brown hair flowed around the girl's tiny face.
      • This is a voice utterly unfettered and its luscious purity is a gorgeous gift to the speakers from which I listened transfixed by the variety and high standard of the music!
      • But the real revelation was the chicken tagliatelle plumped for by the party's female member - luscious creaminess cannily grounded by leek and pungent tarragon.
      • Ariel Watson, the Warden in charge of Brittany and Jill, was a small Native American woman with thick, luscious, wavy black hair.
      • Here, the calm, mystical music already glimpsed in Les enfants is allied with an avowedly Debussian orchestral palette, to produce a luscious work of sensuous religiosity.
      • Easily their best work yet, it combines their trademark girl/boy vocal interplay, rush of melodies and luscious harmonies with more experimental elements.
      • At the minute the Village Green looks luscious and beautiful, but without the help of the community this will no longer be the case.
      • The room is quite attractive with its bamboo furniture and luscious exotic ferns, but perhaps its most spectacular feature is the fountain which cascades down the window pane.
      • The script, while hopelessly literary, is filled with some beautiful moments captured in luscious widescreen by cinematographer Richard Greatrex.
      • With an enchanting melody and chords that sit alongside luscious lyrics, strong images are conjured up: ‘I water flowers in the rain, I dance beneath your silver flames’.
      • It bulged voluptuously in luscious and supple ripples and folds, and the spruce band gave a pleasant, cedar-like aroma.
      • Oil paint can be thinned to a watery consistency or brushed on with thick luscious strokes.
      • For as long as I recall, I have admired beautiful women, whether they have an attractive figure, beautiful eyes, luscious lips or other redeeming features.
      • Have fun with texture when experimenting with lipstick - from sheer stains to moist mattes and tones, from sensuous nudes to luscious color.
      • The doors were opened and a familiar woman with long, luscious blond hair and an elegant and fetching air was admitted.
      • Not surprisingly, he is particularly attracted to a luscious surface and to virtuoso effects.
      • Finally exhausted, the blonde girl decided to lie down and rest on the luscious grass.
      • But it's also one of the prettiest, with richly coloured pictures of luscious foliage, yellow sands and strange devils' faces peeping from trees.
      • A window on the far wall gave a beautiful view of the luscious jungle landscape of Nede.
      Synonyms
      attractive, nice-looking, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, handsome, lovely, stunning, striking, arresting, gorgeous, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible
    2. 1.2 (of a woman) very sexually attractive.
      he'll fall for a luscious Spanish girl who can match him in passion
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In contrast, the real pin-up girl in the photograph was the luscious Liz O'Donnell, who wore a skimpy bikini.
      • Meanwhile, the Sunday Times, the one everyone reads, is running this article, which is up now online, jumping off the screen with candy-colored cartoons of luscious women.
      • And I never told anyone, bar those luscious ladies, of it until now.
      • Here, we present 16 luscious females, each of whom has a tenuous link to football and ask: just who has the hottest totty?
      • He takes one look at the luscious lady and starts getting his crankshaft in a conundrum.
      • Would a half-naked woman with a luscious body influence my buying decision?
      • One knows about St Anthony being tempted with luscious women, in visions which appeared precisely because there were no women for fifty miles.
      • Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
      • One time we had the additional joy of watching two luscious French-Israeli girls enjoying eggs and cigarettes.
      • She was luscious, there was no other way to put it.
      • Her luscious body in those sexy clothes was bait enough for a man who had an admittedly high sexual drive - but besides that, the woman had started to get to him.
      • He told me that the extensions were going with him to the Cosmo shoot to transform the short-haired Christina into a luscious big-haired Cosmo girl.
      • Every one of the luscious ladies had the twisted features of a bearded, demonic, wildly sneering Richard D. James; remember?
      • Then you made mummy, who is already shapely, even more luscious and voluptuous and reubensesque.
      • She was elegance, sensuality, and ferocity all rolled into one luscious woman.
      • I could say, yeah, this girl here was luscious and euphoric, even though she hadn't moved at all since I popped in.
      • Whether you're a fan of pole-dancing stunners or just appreciate the luscious charms of a buxom beauty, her videos are sure to satisfy.
      • She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
      • Just then, Dallas noticed one of the luscious women walking towards him.
      • And then there was Lost in Translation, in which a man in the throes of a midlife crisis spends hours in a hotel room with a luscious young woman, and… they talk a lot.
      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

Derivatives

  • lusciously

  • adverb ˈlʌʃəsliˈləʃəsli
    • 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.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I did have a problem getting the cheeses really emulsified, and instead of lusciously coating my pasta, they clumped up a bit.
      • And o'course there's nothing like the thrill of a large bag of lusciously coloured, soft textured yarns.
      • Riesling is one of the most malleable and versatile grapes, producing wine that runs the spectrum from bone dry to lusciously sweet.
      • 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.
  • lusciousness

  • noun ˈlʌʃəsnəsˈləʃəsnəs
    • ‘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.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I mean if there was ever a picture of the lusciousness of a woman, this is it.
      • 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.
      • There was only one set of tracks, though: the hoofprints of a deer bouncing around with the sheer joy to be found in a pre-dawn feast of green lusciousness.
      • The lusciousness of solitude is a pleasure I subscribe to.

Origin

Late 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.

 
 

Definition of luscious in US English:

luscious

adjectiveˈləSHəsˈləʃəs
  • 1(of food or wine) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste.

    a luscious and fragrant dessert wine
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Those events are to the season what a savory appetizer and luscious dessert are to a fine meal.
    • One of the things I made was this luscious chocolate cake.
    • Huge chocolate bars, fizzy drinks, luscious cakes and tempting sweets are in every shop.
    • When Nathan spoke, Isabelle looked up from the sweet, luscious dessert she was devouring and found his unfathomable gray eyes studying her with interest.
    • It tastes like a luscious milkshake, only it's guilt-free!
    • This also took me away from the Alliance Française, where their Café des Amis serves a luscious coffee, rich and caramel-like in flavour.
    • I'd forgotten I couldn't indulge myself in luscious food.
    • A sublime combination of a luscious honey and apricot succulence with crisp, cleaned-edged acidity explodes onto your palate.
    • In Europe - Germany, Alsace and Italy, the best Pinot Gris are oily, sweetish, full-bodied luscious wines.
    • The 1999 is a peppery, luscious wine of considerable complexity and intensity.
    • Now I am guessing that a sweeter Meyer lemon would make really sweet and luscious lemon tartelettes.
    • This had a lovely smell of passion fruit when cut open, and a sweet luscious taste of the fruit as promised.
    • I blew out the candles on my twelfth birthday cake, indulging in the luscious chocolate taste.
    • Anorexics are under increased pressure to eat whilst bulimics feel there is too much in the way of exotic and luscious foods on offer.
    • Everyone seemed to be having a grand time dancing and socializing and sampling the luscious foods that spread out on a table that took up one wall of the gigantic ballroom.
    • She ran towards her bedside and took a large bite of a juicy luscious apple and looked outside the window.
    • A succulent roast with herbs and mushrooms and other extremely luscious foods.
    • Marvel at the luscious chocolate cream you have created.
    • It is a luxuriously big Cabernet Sauvignon-driven wine, with heavy luscious fruit and firm, but supple tannins.
    • The wash is as heavy as the lead weight bottle, the perfectly ripe handpicked fruit is luscious with plum, chocolate and spicy touches.
    Synonyms
    delicious, succulent, lush, juicy, mouth-watering, sweet, tasty, flavourful, flavoursome, appetizing, delectable, palatable, toothsome, choice
    1. 1.1 Richly verdant or opulent.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Pottery and dyes are rich, luscious and seductive, marks of decadence and luxury.
      • At the minute the Village Green looks luscious and beautiful, but without the help of the community this will no longer be the case.
      • Hanging over the luscious Vietnamese countryside that forms the backdrop to the film is a great big cock.
      • Sure, they were beautiful and had a luscious aroma.
      • Ariel Watson, the Warden in charge of Brittany and Jill, was a small Native American woman with thick, luscious, wavy black hair.
      • For as long as I recall, I have admired beautiful women, whether they have an attractive figure, beautiful eyes, luscious lips or other redeeming features.
      • Oil paint can be thinned to a watery consistency or brushed on with thick luscious strokes.
      • I asked cockily, with my eyes fixed on a girl with thick, luscious black hair.
      • The doors were opened and a familiar woman with long, luscious blond hair and an elegant and fetching air was admitted.
      • With an enchanting melody and chords that sit alongside luscious lyrics, strong images are conjured up: ‘I water flowers in the rain, I dance beneath your silver flames’.
      • In front of the Cajun was a very pretty girl in yellow, with waist-length, wavy hair of luscious caramel, and eyes of sparkling amber.
      • But the real revelation was the chicken tagliatelle plumped for by the party's female member - luscious creaminess cannily grounded by leek and pungent tarragon.
      • The script, while hopelessly literary, is filled with some beautiful moments captured in luscious widescreen by cinematographer Richard Greatrex.
      • Her soft and luscious brown hair flowed around the girl's tiny face.
      • Easily their best work yet, it combines their trademark girl/boy vocal interplay, rush of melodies and luscious harmonies with more experimental elements.
      • Not surprisingly, he is particularly attracted to a luscious surface and to virtuoso effects.
      • Here, the calm, mystical music already glimpsed in Les enfants is allied with an avowedly Debussian orchestral palette, to produce a luscious work of sensuous religiosity.
      • But it's also one of the prettiest, with richly coloured pictures of luscious foliage, yellow sands and strange devils' faces peeping from trees.
      • The room is quite attractive with its bamboo furniture and luscious exotic ferns, but perhaps its most spectacular feature is the fountain which cascades down the window pane.
      • Think Roja and you would think gorgeous smile, luscious lips, limitless joy.
      • It bulged voluptuously in luscious and supple ripples and folds, and the spruce band gave a pleasant, cedar-like aroma.
      • A window on the far wall gave a beautiful view of the luscious jungle landscape of Nede.
      • Have fun with texture when experimenting with lipstick - from sheer stains to moist mattes and tones, from sensuous nudes to luscious color.
      • Finally exhausted, the blonde girl decided to lie down and rest on the luscious grass.
      • The four luscious colours and little brush ensure it's a winner.
      • This is a voice utterly unfettered and its luscious purity is a gorgeous gift to the speakers from which I listened transfixed by the variety and high standard of the music!
      Synonyms
      attractive, nice-looking, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, handsome, lovely, stunning, striking, arresting, gorgeous, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible
    2. 1.2 (of a woman) very sexually attractive.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her luscious body in those sexy clothes was bait enough for a man who had an admittedly high sexual drive - but besides that, the woman had started to get to him.
      • And I never told anyone, bar those luscious ladies, of it until now.
      • Whether you're a fan of pole-dancing stunners or just appreciate the luscious charms of a buxom beauty, her videos are sure to satisfy.
      • Just then, Dallas noticed one of the luscious women walking towards him.
      • She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
      • Then you made mummy, who is already shapely, even more luscious and voluptuous and reubensesque.
      • One knows about St Anthony being tempted with luscious women, in visions which appeared precisely because there were no women for fifty miles.
      • And then there was Lost in Translation, in which a man in the throes of a midlife crisis spends hours in a hotel room with a luscious young woman, and… they talk a lot.
      • Meanwhile, the Sunday Times, the one everyone reads, is running this article, which is up now online, jumping off the screen with candy-colored cartoons of luscious women.
      • One time we had the additional joy of watching two luscious French-Israeli girls enjoying eggs and cigarettes.
      • He takes one look at the luscious lady and starts getting his crankshaft in a conundrum.
      • Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
      • Here, we present 16 luscious females, each of whom has a tenuous link to football and ask: just who has the hottest totty?
      • She was luscious, there was no other way to put it.
      • He told me that the extensions were going with him to the Cosmo shoot to transform the short-haired Christina into a luscious big-haired Cosmo girl.
      • I could say, yeah, this girl here was luscious and euphoric, even though she hadn't moved at all since I popped in.
      • Would a half-naked woman with a luscious body influence my buying decision?
      • Every one of the luscious ladies had the twisted features of a bearded, demonic, wildly sneering Richard D. James; remember?
      • In contrast, the real pin-up girl in the photograph was the luscious Liz O'Donnell, who wore a skimpy bikini.
      • She was elegance, sensuality, and ferocity all rolled into one luscious woman.
      Synonyms
      sexy, sexually attractive, nubile, ravishing, gorgeous, desirable, alluring, sultry, sensuous, beautiful, stunning, attractive

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete licious, shortened form of delicious.

 
 
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