tasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪsti/
rhymes: -eɪsti
Forms: form: tastier
form: tastiest
Etymology: From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.
Senses: examples: text: You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.
text: Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table. […] Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
text: As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to be tastier in Japan.
ref: 2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: delicious
word: ambrosial
word: appetizing
word: dainty
word: delectable
word: delicious
word: delish
word: exquisite
word: finger-lickin' good
word: flavorful
word: flavorous
word: flavorsome
word: gustful
word: lekker
word: lickerish
word: lip-smacking
word: luscious
word: moreish
word: mouthwatering
word: nummy
word: ono
word: out of this world
word: palatable
word: sapid
word: savory
word: scrummy
word: scrumptious
word: tasteful
word: tasty
word: to die for
word: toothful
word: toothsome
word: yummy
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
antonyms: word: nontasty
word: untasty
word: disgusting
word: distasteful
word: nontasty
word: undelicious
word: unpalatable
word: untasty
word: yucky
glosses: Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.
examples: text: These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
text: we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
ref: 1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume 6, number 2, page 87:
antonyms: word: untasteful
word: unadorned
glosses: Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
examples: text: Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: word: sexy
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
glosses: Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
glosses: Skillful; highly competent.
examples: text: I watched it all unfold live on Sky News. Ed Miliband was there, but so were the usual bunch of troublemakers and I, for one, was expecting it to kick off.¶ Sure enough, it all got a bit tasty in the afternoon at about the time I should have been polishing off my tinned tuna. Only there was no one about to dish out my grub.¶ They were all glued to the telly watching a gang of blokes wearing balaclavas smash the windows of a Porsche showroom in Park Lane.
ref: 2011, James Robinson, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, →ISBN:
text: No, I wouldn't take a bullet for him, or any of them,I wasn't paid enough to go that far, but I would break up a scrap if it all got a bit tasty and, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.
ref: 2012, Craig Summers, Bodyguard: My Life on the Front Line, →ISBN:
text: These empires of rusting metal have long been portrayed in film, fiction and TV as a haunt of the wide boy, the tasty geezer, and many other variants of ne'er-do-well
ref: 2014 September 5, “Honest scrappers”, in BBC News:
glosses: Potentially violent.
Derived terms: tasty cheese
Related terms: taste
tasteful