Word Meanings - TOOTHSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Grateful to the taste; palable. -- Tooth"some*ly, adv. -- Tooth"some*ness, n. Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOOTHSOME)

• Luscious
• Sweet
• delicious
• sugary
• honied
• delightful
• toothsome
• delightsome
• Sapid
• Tasty
• relishing
• savory
• piquant
• palatable
• Tasteful
• agreeable
• tasty
• elegant
• refined

Related words: (words related to TOOTHSOME)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• 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.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• HONIED
  See HONEYED
• 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.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• 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.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• LUSCIOUS
  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;
• 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.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• HONITON LACE
  . A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.
• 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.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• CINCHONIC
  Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• SULPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain
• CINCHONINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
• PYTHONIST
  A conjurer; a diviner.
• SIPHONIATA
  See SIPHONATA
• CINCHONIZE
  To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
• PYROTHONIDE
  A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.
• CINCHONIDINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.