mouth-watering

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Adjective mouth-watering has 1 sense

mouth-watering, savory, savoury, tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste
Antonyms: unappetizing, unappetising (indirect, via appetizing)

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Mouth-watering

Adjective

1. (of food) having an intensely appetizing taste or appearance.

Sample sentence: The mouth-watering aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies filled the kitchen.

Noun

1. an experience, sight, or smell that causes excessive salivation.

Sample sentence: The sight of the juicy steak on the grill was a real mouth-watering.

Verb

1. causing excessive salivation; making someone desire or crave something.

Sample sentence: The chef's culinary skills were so impressive that his dishes mouth-watered everyone in the restaurant.