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tasty

adj · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈteɪsti/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪsti
  • CMU ARPABET: T EY1 S T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, dainty, delectable, delish, exquisite, finger-lickin' good, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, gustful, lekker, lickerish, lip-smacking, luscious, moreish, mouthwatering, nummy, ono, palatable, sapid, savory, scrummy, tasteful, tasty, toothful, toothsome, yummy

Antonyms: nontasty, untasty, ambrosial, appetizing, dainty, delectable, delicious, delish, exquisite, finger-lickin' good, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, gustful, lekker, lickerish, lip-smacking, luscious, moreish, mouthwatering, nummy, ono, palatable, sapid, savory, scrummy, tasteful, tasty, toothful, toothsome, yummy

2

adj

Meaning 2

Having or showing good taste; tasteful.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • These items will make an attractive and tasty display.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: untasteful, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, corny, crass, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitsch, kitschy, loud, meretricious, naff, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, ritzy, raffish, schlocky, showy, snazzy, splendiferous, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, too much, trinkety, unbecoming, vain, whorish, zesty

3

adj

Meaning 3

Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sexy, alluring, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy, bonable, bonerific, buff, delicious, desirable, doable, dreamy, effable, fanciable, fappable, fapworthy, fine, fit, fuckable, gorgeous, hittable, horny, hot, humpable, peng, provocative, raunchy, rootable, salacious, screwable, seductive, sensual, sexable, sexalicious, shaggable, swoonsome, tasty, toothsome

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Skillful; highly competent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Potentially violent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Something tasty; a delicious article of food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A loaf of bread.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Philippines, dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective

Meaning 8

pleasing to the sense of taste

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a tasty morsel

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: tasteless

History

Etymology

From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: համով (hamov) — having or showing good taste
  • Central Bikol: managom — having or showing good taste
  • Bulgarian: изискан (iziskan) — having or showing good taste
  • Catalan: elegant — having or showing good taste
  • Chickasaw: champoli — having or showing good taste
  • Chinese Mandarin: 美味的 — having or showing good taste
  • Dutch: smakelijk — having or showing good taste
  • French: élégant — having or showing good taste
  • French: avec gout — having or showing good taste
  • German: köstlich — having or showing good taste
  • German: lecker — having or showing good taste
  • German: schmackhaft — having or showing good taste
  • German: geschmackvoll — having or showing good taste
  • Greek: νόστιμος (nóstimos) — having or showing good taste
  • Hindi: स्वादिष्ट (svādiṣṭ) — having or showing good taste
  • Hungarian: ízléses — having or showing good taste
  • Indonesian: sedap — having or showing good taste
  • Indonesian: nikmat — having or showing good taste
  • Japanese: 風味のよい (fūmi no yoi) — having or showing good taste
  • Latvian: gaumīgs — having or showing good taste
  • Portuguese: de/com bom gosto — having or showing good taste
  • Russian: изя́щный (izjáščnyj) — having or showing good taste
  • Spanish: de buen gusto — having or showing good taste
  • Ukrainian: ви́тончений (výtončenyj) — having or showing good taste
  • Bulgarian: апетитен (apetiten) — slang: appealing
  • Japanese: おいしそう (oishisō) — slang: appealing
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