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tasty

/ˈteɪsti/

tasty adjective: having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.

Adjective

tasty (comparative tastier, superlative tastiest)

  1. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.
    • You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.
    • 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...2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN
  2. (obsolete) Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
    • These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
    • 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 it1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume 6, number 2, page 87
  3. (slang) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
    • Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 5
  4. (UK, informal) Skillful; highly competent.
  5. (UK, informal) Potentially violent.
    • 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...2011, James Robinson, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, →ISBN
    • 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.2012, Craig Summers, Bodyguard: My Life on the Front Line, →ISBN
  6. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Having good taste; tasteful.
    • But you must wear pink, my dear; that blue thing as your aunt Glegg gave you turns you into a crowflower. Jane never was tasty.1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons

Noun

tasty (plural tasties)

  1. (informal) Something tasty; a delicious article of food.
    • The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler
    • Sean then made up the most delicious pâté to have with biscuits and various other tasties.2017, Susan M. Hall, My Vanishing African Dreams
  2. (Philippines, dated) A loaf of bread.

tasty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

tasty in Hindi

having or showing good taste
स्वादिष्ट svādiṣṭ

tasty in Tamil

சுவையான, சுவைமிக்க, ருசியான

tasty in Marathi

tasty, flavorful, delicious
स्वादिष्ट svādiṣṭa
tasty; delicious; palatable; agreeable to the taste
रुचकर ruckar

tasty in Urdu

tasty, delicious
مزیدار mazedār
More languagesFewer languages
tasty in Bengali
মজা moja, লজিজ lôziz, সুস্বাদু śuśśadu
tasty in Telugu
రుచ్యము rucyamu
tasty in Malayalam
സരസം sarasaṁ
tasty in Kannada
ರುಚಿಯಾದದ್ದು, ರುಚಿಯಾದ
tasty in Punjabi
ਸੁਆਦ suād
tasty in Gujarati
સરસ saras
tasty in Odia
ସ୍ୱାଦିଷ୍ଟ, ସୁସ୍ୱାଦୁ
tasty in Sanskrit
सरस sarasa, रसवत् rásavat
tasty in Assamese
মজা moza
tasty in Nepali
स्वादिलो svādilo
tasty in Indonesian
sedap, nikmat

Examples of tasty in a sentence

  • Bananas are tastier than parsnips, but the latter’s nutritional value is higher than the former’s.
  • There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.
  • Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.

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Synonyms of tasty

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Antonyms

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Forms of tasty

Adjective
comparativetastier
superlativetastiest
Noun
pluraltasties

Origin of tasty

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

Words formed from tasty

Words that rhyme with tasty

Questions about tasty

What does tasty mean?
Tasty means having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.
What is tasty in Hindi?
Tasty in Hindi is स्वादिष्ट (svādiṣṭ). See Tasty meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tasty?
Tasty can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tasty?
Tasty is pronounced /ˈteɪsti/.

Words near tasty in the dictionary

  1. tasting rooms
  2. tastingly
  3. tastings
  4. tasto
  5. tasts
  6. tasty
  7. tasty cheese
  8. tasuki
  9. tasukizori
  10. tasuldine
  11. Taswegian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tasty (page history and authors); tasty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); रुचकर (Marathi) (page history and authors); مزیدار (Urdu) (page history and authors); মজা (Bengali) (page history and authors); రుచ్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); സരസം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); tasty (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਸੁਆਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સરસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); tasty (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); रसवत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); মজা (Assamese) (page history and authors); स्वादिलो (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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