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Definition of luscious in English: lusciousadjective 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 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 - 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 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.
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: lusciousadjectiveˈləSHəsˈləʃəs 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 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 - 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. |