flavorous

American  

[fley-ver-uhs] / ˈfleɪ vər əs /

adjective

1. full of flavor.

2. pleasant to the taste or smell.

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flavorous British  

/ ˈfleɪvərəs /

adjective

1. having flavour; tasty

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Other Word Forms

• unflavorous adjective

Etymology

Origin of flavorous

First recorded in 1690–1700; flavor + -ous

Example Sentences

It was a narrow, ill-lighted, unventilated apartment, bitter with the after-taste of taxes, prophetically flavorous of taxes yet to be.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavorous contents distributed.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

The book is fresh and flavorous in tone, and speaks to the fancy of children.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

Who made the splendid rose Saturate with purple glows; Cupped to the marge with beauty; a perfume-press Whence the wind vintages Gushes of warm-ed fragrance richer far Than all the flavorous ooze of Cyprus' vats?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

The dry stuffing takes up the juices of the fowl, and is much more flavorous, and less pasty than that which is wet before use.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha