luscious
[luhsh-uhs]
- highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
- richly satisfying to the senses or the mind: the luscious style of his poetry.
- richly adorned; luxurious: luscious furnishings.
- arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous: a luscious figure.
- sweet to excess; cloying.
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Origin of luscious
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1. See delicious.
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Contemporary Examples
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There are home objects of every shape and size: from luscious couches to high-concept design prototypes.
The fork end was used to lift sticky sweetmeats out of pottery jars; the spoon end was used to scoop up the luscious syrup.
Historical Examples
And who could be more just than he in distributing the luscious prize?
Ranald Bannerman's BoyhoodGeorge MacDonald
In plucking them they pricked their fingers with the sharp points, but the fruit was luscious.
Sielanka: An IdyllHenryk Sienkiewicz
She could still see him in action with the seven luscious maidens.
Pagan PassionsGordon Randall Garrett
In the fragrance of the blossom of the limes the bees are gleaning a luscious harvest.
A Book of MythsJean Lang
No drop of water might cool his lips, no luscious fruit might soothe his agony.
Museum of AntiquityL. W. Yaggy
luscious
- extremely pleasurable, esp to the taste or smell
- very attractive
- archaic cloying
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Word Origin
C15 lucius, licius, perhaps a shortened form of delicious
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Word Origin and History for luscious
adj.
late 15c., perhaps a variant (with form perhaps influenced by Old French luxure, lusure) of Middle English licius "delicious" (c.1400), which is perhaps a shortening of delicious, but OED is against this. Related: Lusciously; lusciousness.
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