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delectable

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore D words

delightful and highly pleasing, especially to taste

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Delectable in a sentence

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The bakery filled the street with the scent of delectable pastries.

Synonyms
deliciousluscioussavory
Antonyms
distastefulunpalatablerepugnant

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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.

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Delectable (adjective) means delightful and highly pleasing, especially to taste
Here is delectable used in an example sentence: "The bakery filled the street with the scent of delectable pastries."
Common synonyms for delectable include delicious, luscious, savory.
Antonyms of delectable include distasteful, unpalatable, repugnant.
Delectable is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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