Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Suggestive of ambrosia; fragrant or delicious. See Synonyms at delicious.
- adj. Of or worthy of the gods; divine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to ambrosia; partaking of the nature or qualities of ambrosia; anointed or fragrant with ambrosia; hence, delighting the taste or smell; delicious; fragrant; sweet-smelling: as, ambrosial dews.
- Pertaining to the senses of taste and smell: a forced use.
Wiktionary
- adj. Greek mythology Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
- adj. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
- adj. Divinely excellent or beautiful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
- adj. worthy of the gods
Etymologies
- From ambrosia + -al. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The ancient yoga masters knew nothing of the endocrine system, but they did know that there was something magical and empowering in the predawn hours, which they called the ambrosial hours.”
“And I use Big Words, like "ambrosial," which bothers some children's book reviewers.”
“From cat to zombie to Mitchum to Aldo in the snow, you find yourself falling in some kind of ambrosial, demented love.”
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“Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called 'ambrosial' because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the”
“Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called "ambrosial" because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the”
“Thespian chorus, was in the Dorian states already devoted to sublime themes, and enriched by elaborate art; and Simonides, whose elegies, peculiar for their sweetness, might have inspired the "ambrosial”
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“You have to admire a guy who thinks of restaurant counters as "stages" for his baristas and who freaks out because the aroma from the company's profitable breakfast sandwiches is masking the java's ambrosial bouquet.”
“Oh, no—the aroma from Starbucks's profitable breakfast sandwiches was masking the java's ambrosial bouquet.”
“Porridge is one of those dishes which, made well, can be ambrosial, as the French heroine of that wonderful film Babette's Feast proved when she transformed the grim sludge that the Danes call øllebrød, a kind of rye porridge, into a delightful morning treat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ambrosial’.
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Fragrant things and terms that describe them. Generic names of botanical binomials aren't capitalized if the unconventional lower case form has a useful Wordnik definition. I'm primarily seeking te...
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
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words involving food and enjoying food
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delectable words
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Bluraven's list
These are words that have a certain beauty about them and a gentleness on the tongue.
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gastrowordie
words of a gastronomique bent
nectarous, umami, piquant, brackish, ambrosial, bittersweet, astringent, gastronome, blanch
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
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GRE
Taisha GRE Bible
archaic, archetype, archipelago, architect, archive, arctic, ardor, arduous, argot, arid, armory, arrest and 289 more...
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foodies' wordies
ambrosial, bonne bouche, mignardise, larder, vintner, piehole, bon vivant, bon viveur, soupçon
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brtom Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd
All Heav'n ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 18, 2006