different between saccharine vs luscious

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæk??a?n/, /-??n/, /-?i?n/, /?sæk??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæk???n/, /-??n/, /?sæk??n/
• Homophone: saccharin
• Hyphenation: sac?cha?rine

Etymology 1

From New Latin saccharum (“sugar”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Saccharum is derived from saccharon (“syrupy liquid from bamboo or reeds”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sákkharon), from Pali sakkhar? (“sugar; gravel; granule, grain; crystal; potsherd”), from Sanskrit ?????? (?árkar?, “ground or candied sugar; cotton sugar, sugarmaple; gravel, grit, pebbles; potsherd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?orkeh? (“boulder; gravel”).

Adjective

saccharine (comparative more saccharine, superlative most saccharine)

1. (dated) Of or relating to sugar; sugary.

   Synonym: (archaic, rare) saccharous

2. (dated) Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.

   Synonyms: cloying, sickly, sickly sweet

3. (figuratively, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.

   Synonyms: cloying, precious, saccharined, sickly, twee

   Antonym: nonsaccharine

4. (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.

Derived terms

• nonsaccharine
• saccharined (adjective)
• saccharinely
• saccharinity

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See also

• Thesaurus:sweet

Noun

saccharine (uncountable)

1. (dated) Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
2. (figuratively) Sentimentalism.

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Etymology 2

From saccharin +? -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).

Adjective

saccharine (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).

Derived terms

• saccharinic

Translations

Etymology 3

A variant of saccharin.

Noun

saccharine (plural saccharines)

1. Alternative spelling of saccharin

References

French

Alternative forms

• saccarine (1990 reformed spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ka.?in/

Noun

saccharine f (plural saccharines)

1. saccharin

Further reading

• “saccharine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

sacchar?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of sacchar?nus

English

Alternative forms

• lushious (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of *lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) +? -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).

An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

luscious (comparative more luscious, superlative most luscious)

1. Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
   • 1863, H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden

     Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

     There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.

2. Sexually appealing; seductive.
3. Obscene.

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