Synonyms for appetizing
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
delicious, palatable, mouth-watering, scrumptious informal, yummy informal, enticing, attractive, toothsome, savory US, savoury UK, luscious, nice, tasteful, fetching, flavoursome UK, flavorsome US, exquisite, ambrosial, dainty, sapid
Definitions
- adj. 1
That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.
This food looks so appetizing.
Related words
- Word family
- appetizingness
- Other spellings
- appetising UK
Example sentences
- delicious I ate lots of delicious, juicy ham last Christmas.
- enticing Layla's imperfections made her all the more enticing.
- palatable The pilot was revised to be more palatable to a mature audience.
- attractive The position carries with it an attractive salary.
- tasteful Beer without a tasteful layer of foam isn't beer.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| appetizing | rising | |
| delicious | rising | |
| enticing | rising | |
| palatable | steady | |
| attractive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- nice1
- 5 letters
- yummy2, sapid
- 6 letters
- dainty2, savory3
- 7 letters
- savoury
- 8 letters
- enticing3, luscious2, tasteful2, fetching2
- 9 letters
- delicious3, exquisite3, palatable4, toothsome, ambrosial3
- 10 letters
- attractive3, flavorsome
- 11 letters
- scrumptious, flavoursome
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (yummy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- appétissant
- Italiano
- appetitoso
- Deutsch
- anregend