Ambrosial
What it means
Exceptionally pleasing in taste, fragrance, or sensory richness.
Reach for it when using deliberately elevated praise for a remarkable flavor or scent
The orchard released an ambrosial fragrance after the rain.
Words to choose between 6
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playful
Fits when informal exaggeration suits delighted reaction
Careful Heavenly is a cliché and unsuitable for measured description.
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everyday
Fits when excellent taste should be stated plainly
Careful Delicious does not naturally describe fragrance or sound.
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warm
Fits when food gives refined pleasure
Careful Delectable can sound coy and is mostly limited to taste.
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professional
Fits when pleasant scent is the precise sensory fact
Careful Fragrant says nothing about taste or extraordinary quality.
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formal
Fits when rare delicacy and refinement deserve emphasis
Careful Exquisite can describe craft or pain and lacks the food association.
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literary
nectareous
Fits when sweet richness suits ornate prose
Careful Nectareous is rarer than ambrosial and likely to distract.
Opposites 3
- unpalatable
- foul-smelling
- insipid
Common phrases 3
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ambrosial aroma
An ambrosial aroma drifted from the bakery.
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ambrosial flavor
Roasted peaches gave the tart an ambrosial flavor.
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ambrosial scent
The flowers released an ambrosial scent at dusk.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Eleanorrrrrrrrrr, Southern England accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Updated