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Thesaurus: luscious

Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.

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  1. a. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
  2. a. Cloying; fulsome.
  3. a. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.
  4. adj. having strong sexual appeal
  5. adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  6. 1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.] Steele. -- Lus"cious*ly, adv. -- Lus"cious*ness, n.
  7. j:100 s having strong sexual appeal s extremely pleasing to the sense of taste