scrumptious
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of scrumptious
First recorded in 1820–30; perhaps alteration of sumptuous
Explanation
If you describe something as scrumptious, you'd probably like to eat every last crumb. Can I have another slice of that scrumptious pie? Please? Something scrumptious is delightfully appetizing. We usually use it to talk about delicious food, but if your little cousin is so cute you want to eat her up, then she's scrumptious too. Remember that scrumptious has a "p" after the "m," even though you often can't hear it when the word is spoken. Another common mistake is to place -uous at the end of scrumptious rather than -ious.
Vocabulary lists containing scrumptious
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Example Sentences
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Elsewhere we learn that, during the 1978 coup d’état, the hotel’s chefs “whipped up special dishes, turning tender steaks and scrumptious cakes into weapons of distraction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Mikel Kruger-Johnsen scooped in a scrumptious second, but the two goals the 19-year-old sandwiched were not so unstoppable.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Narrated with wry verve by Elizabeth Sastre, the whole thing is as scrumptious as if it had been constructed of gingerbread.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Knowing that my baby’s first cry would reverberate through the world before noon was strange and scrumptious.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023
Her prey was not herring, but dinner: a nice halibut, a tasty haddock, or even a scrumptious sole would do.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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