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APPETISING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does appetising mean?
• APPETISING (adjective)
The adjective APPETISING has 1 sense:
1. appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma
Familiarity information: APPETISING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma
Synonyms:
appetising; appetizing
Similar:
mouth-watering; savory; savoury (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Also:
palatable; toothsome (acceptable to the taste or mind)
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Attribute:
appetisingness; appetizingness (the property of stimulating the appetite)
Derivation:
appetisingness (the property of stimulating the appetite)
Context examples
The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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