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DELECTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delectable mean?
• DELECTABLE (adjective)
The adjective DELECTABLE has 2 senses:
1. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
2. capable of arousing sexual desire
Familiarity information: DELECTABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
Synonyms:
delectable; delicious; luscious; pleasant-tasting; scrumptious; toothsome; yummy
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of arousing sexual desire
Synonyms:
delectable; sexually attractive
Context example:
the delectable Miss Haynes
Similar:
desirable (worth having or seeking or achieving)
Context examples
Also, while aware that poverty was anything but delectable, she had a comfortable middle-class feeling that poverty was salutary, that it was a sharp spur that urged on to success all men who were not degraded and hopeless drudges.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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