scrumptious

[skruhmp-shuhs]

adjective

1. very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable.

   a scrumptious casserole;

   a scrumptious satin gown.

scrumptious

/ ˈskrʌmpʃəs /

adjective

1. informal,  very pleasing; delicious

Other Word Forms

• scrumptiously adverb
• scrumptiousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrumptious¹

First recorded in 1820–30; perhaps alteration of sumptuous

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrumptious¹

C19: probably changed from _sumptuous

Example Sentences

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.”

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Her prey was not herring, but dinner: a nice halibut, a tasty haddock, or even a scrumptious sole would do.

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Some cried out against the baroness’s words, while others agreed with Lady Constance, for truly, the cake had been scrumptious, and there was hardly a speck of it left on anyone’s plate.

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Nowadays, of course, “alma mater” is what people call the place where they went to school and, one hopes, were fed countless yummy bites of knowledge from a vast and scrumptious buffet of education.

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But just as a scrumptious tarte Philippe will cause the most dreadful tummy ache if eaten in excess, too much optimism can plunge one into the precarious state of mind known as “optoomuchism.”

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