Savory
Meaning of Savory
adjective
US spelling of savoury.
noun
an aromatic plant of the mint family, used as a culinary herb.
Middle English: perhaps from Old English sætherie, or via Old French, from Latin satureia .
adjective- (of food) belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet.
fresh pineapple is useful in savoury as well as in sweet dishes
- morally wholesome or acceptable.
everyone knew it was a front for less savoury operations
- a savoury dish, especially a snack or appetizer.
refreshments include cakes and savouries
Middle English (in the sense ‘pleasing to the sense of taste or smell’): from Old French savoure ‘tasty, fragrant’, based on Latin sapor ‘taste’.
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Hyphenation of Savory
Sa-vory
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- Savory is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Savory synonyms
Meaning savoury:
Meaning piquant:
Meaning tasting of, containing, or preserved with salt:
Meaning having a strong, piquant flavour or smell:
Meaning able to be agreed on; suitable:
Meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
Meaning (of food or drink) pleasant to taste:
Meaning conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being:
Meaning regarded by society to be good, proper, or correct:
Meaning denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine:
Meaning conforming to accepted notions of propriety or good taste; decorous:
Meaning (of a performance, effort, or action) deserving public acknowledgement and praise but not necessarily outstanding or successful:
Meaning a small dish of food or a drink taken before a meal or the main course of a meal to stimulate one's appetite:
Meaning a small piece of tasty food:
Savory antonyms
Meaning having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar or honey; not salt, sour, or bitter:
Meaning causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable:
Meaning not satisfactory or allowable:
Words that rhyme with Savory
flavory, savory, unsavory, Ivory, civory, herbivory, insectivory, ivory, omnivory, plurivory
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