LUSH

exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous

(adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance; “their riotous blooming”

lush, succulent

(adjective) tender and full of juice; “lush fruits”; “succulent roast beef”; “succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves”

deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, lush

(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; “a princely sum”; “gilded dining rooms”; “these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous”

juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous, lush

(adjective) having strong sexual appeal; “juicy barmaids”; “a red-hot mama”; “a voluptuous woman”; “a toothsome blonde in a tight dress”

alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse

(noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Lush

A surname.

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Etymology 1

Adjective

lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

Juicy, succulent.

Synonyms: sapful, sappy

(dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.

(of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.

(of food) Savoury, delicious.

(miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.

(British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.

(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

(obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

Etymology 2

Noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

(slang, pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

Synonyms: souse, suck-pint, Thesaurus:drunkard

(slang) Intoxicating liquor.

Synonym: Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

(Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves

Synonyms: egotist, narcissist

Verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

(ambitransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Source: Wiktionary


Lush, a. Etym: [Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious.]

Definition: Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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