LUSCIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luscious mean? 

• LUSCIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective LUSCIOUS has 2 senses:

1. having strong sexual appeal

2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

  Familiarity information: LUSCIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUSCIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having strong sexual appeal

Synonyms:

juicy; luscious; lush; red-hot; toothsome; voluptuous

Context example:

a toothsome blonde in a tight dress

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They had been eating cherries—great, luscious, black cherries with a juice of the color of dark wine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember a certain luscious roll he gave to such phrases as The people's representatives in Parliament assembled, Your petitioners therefore humbly approach your honourable house, His gracious Majesty's unfortunate subjects, as if the words were something real in his mouth, and delicious to taste; Mr. Micawber, meanwhile, listening with a little of an author's vanity, and contemplating (not severely) the spikes on the opposite wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In similar manner he collected lists of strong phrases, the phrases of living language, phrases that bit like acid and scorched like flame, or that glowed and were mellow and luscious in the midst of the arid desert of common speech.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)