NECTAREOUS Synonyms

• variety of sweet eating apples

• greatly pleasing or entertaining

• extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

• emanating from God

• resulting from divine providence

• being or having the nature of a god

• devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity

• appropriate to or befitting a god

• being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

• perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

• search by divining, as if with a rod

• full of flavor

• having strong sexual appeal

• extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

• morally wholesome or acceptable

• either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family

• an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre

• having an agreeably pungent taste

• having a pleasant taste

• extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

• a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

• tender and full of juice

• having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

• (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content

• not containing or composed of salt water

• a dish served as the last course of a meal

• English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)

• a food rich in sugar

• the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth

• the property of tasting as if it contains sugar

• in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')

• having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub

• pleasing to the ear

• pleasing to the senses

• pleasing to the mind or feeling

• having a natural fragrance

• not soured or preserved

• with sweetening added

• pleasing to the sense of taste