gustatory

[guhs-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

1. of or relating to taste or tasting.

Other Word Forms

• gustatorily adverb
• ungustatory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gustatory¹

1675–85; < Latin gustā ( re ) to taste + -tory ¹

Example Sentences

It’s a return to innocence — a gustatory reminder of those carefree childhood moments when I indulged in the sourest of sour treats to my heart’s content.

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Would it degrade your own gustatory experience if you knew those cooking for you weren't your friends and family but instead were robots?

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The "iconic, one-dish, standalone comfort meal" is one that both fulfills and satiates, emotionally and gustatorily, in a way that not many other foods do on the larger cultural scale.

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For people cosplaying as a vacationer on the Amalfi Coast, there may be no better gustatory way to approximate the sensation.

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And yet, perhaps because of the strange diction, the phrase is more than just a gustatory command.

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