palatable, appetizing, savory, tasty, toothsome mean agreeable or pleasant especially to the sense of taste. palatable often applies to something that is found to be merely agreeable.

Two main versions of this herb are grown domestically – winter savory and summer savory. Summer savory is an aromatic annual which is related to rosemary and thyme.

1. Appetizing to the taste or smell: a savory stew. 2. Piquant, pungent, or salty to the taste; not sweet. 3. Morally respectable; inoffensive: a past that was scarcely savory.

Dec 25, 2025 · savory (comparative savorier, superlative savoriest) (American spelling) Tasty, attractive to the palate.

savory /ˈseɪvərɪ/ n ( pl -vories) any of numerous aromatic plants of the genus Satureja, esp S. montana (winter savory) and S. hortensis (summer savory), of the Mediterranean region, …

Something savory is full of flavor, delicious and tasty — usually something that someone has cooked. In the world of cuisine, savory is also often used to mean the opposite of sweet, or salty.

Savory food has a salty or spicy flavor rather than a sweet one. ...all sorts of sweet and savory breads.

SAVORY meaning: 1 : having a pleasant taste or smell; 2 : having a spicy or salty quality without being sweet

Definition of savory adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

SAVORY definition: having a salty, spicy, or piquant flavor; not sweet. See examples of savory used in a sentence.