sapid
Americanadjective
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having taste or flavor.
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agreeable to the taste; palatable.
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agreeable, as to the mind; to one's liking.
adjective
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having a pleasant taste
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agreeable or engaging
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Etymology
Origin of sapid
1625–35; < Latin sapidus tasty; cf. sage 1
Explanation
Something that's sapid is very flavorful or savory. A sapid beef stew tastes rich and delicious. The adjective sapid is a fairly uncommon way to describe something with a rich, deep flavor. You can declare your grandmother's Thanksgiving feast sapid, though you may have to reassure her that it's a compliment — sapid is more often used in scientific or industry writing about food than in cooking magazines. It comes from the Latin sapidus, "savory, or having a taste," from the root sapere, which means both "to taste" and "to be wise."
Vocabulary lists containing sapid
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Example Sentences
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It’s a particularly toothsome, sapid red marked by notes of red fruit and spice, and a wonderful match with a wide range of foods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Unlike animals raised in feedlots and pens, Stone Barns' animals oxygenate their muscles with all their ranging and grass-eating, and thereby develop more sapid meat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Direct sensation is the first perception emanating from the intermediate organs of the mouth, during the time that the sapid body rests on the tongue.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
If we demand what is understood by sapid bodies, we reply that it is every thing that has flavor, which is soluble, and fit to be absorbed by the organ of taste.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
I like good, thick Christmas pie, 'reeking with sapid juices,' full-ripe and zealous for good or ill.
From Songs and Other Verse by Field, Eugene
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