Word Meanings - TASTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TASTY)

• Dainty
• Choice
• rare
• refined
• tasty
• exquisite
• luxurious
• epicurean
• Sapid
• Tasty
• relishing
• savory
• piquant
• palatable
• toothsome
• delicious
• Tasteful
• agreeable
• elegant

Related words: (words related to TASTY)

• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• SAPID
  Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne.
• EPICUREAN
  1. A follower or Epicurus. 2. One given to epicurean indulgence.
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• DAINTY
  1. Rare; valuable; costly. Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer. Note: Hence the proverb "dainty maketh dearth," i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. 2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome. Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• PIQUANT
  Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote. "As piquant to the tongue as salt." Addison. "Piquant railleries." Gov. of Tongue.
• CHOICEFUL
  Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
• EXQUISITE
  1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• EXQUISITELY
  In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
• EPICUREANISM
  Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
• SAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson.
• SAVORY
  The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.
• EXQUISITENESS
  Quality of being exquisite.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• OCTASTYLE
  See OCTOSTYLE
• OVERELEGANT
  Too elegant. Johnson.
• PENTASTYLE
  Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• HOBSON'S CHOICE
  A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the