- Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich."And raisins keep their luscious, native taste." [Dryden.]
- Cloying; fulsome."He had a tedious, luscious way of talking." [Jeffrey.]
- Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.(R)
Etymology: Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush Lusty