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NECTAROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nectarous mean?
• NECTAROUS (adjective)
The adjective NECTAROUS has 1 sense:
1. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
Familiarity information: NECTAROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
Synonyms:
ambrosial; ambrosian; nectarous
Context example:
ambrosial food
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Derivation:
nectar ((classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal)
Context examples
And now it is deluged with a nectarous flood—the young germs swamped—delicious poison cankering them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver's feet: she is talking to me with her sweet voice—gazing down on me with those eyes your skilful hand has copied so well—smiling at me with these coral lips.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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