esculent
Meanings
Plural: esculents
Adj
- Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
- “Good enough to eat”; attractive.
Noun
- Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
- An edible mushroom.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ēsculentus (“fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”) + English -ent (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). Ēsculentus is derived from ēsca (“food; dish prepared for the table; bait”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’ forming adjectives).
Synonyms
aliment, attractive, bad, bait, beat, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, belly-timber, bona vardering, bonnie, breathtaking, butt-ugly, butters, captivating, chow, clapped, comely, comestible, comestibles, consumable, coyote ugly, cuisine, cute, deform, eatable, eatables, eats, eatworthy, edible, edibles, esculent, exquisite, fair, feed, fetching, fine-looking, fodder, food, foodstuffs, fuckfaced, fugly, good enough to eat, good-looking, grub, handsome, hideous, homely, kai, knockout, like the back end of a bus, lovely, lovesome, lustrious, meals, meat, munchable, nibbleable, nibbles, nice, nice-looking, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, om nom nom, palatable, personable, physically attractive, plug-ugly, prettiful, pretty, provender, provisions, pulchritudinous, rations, repulsive, scran, shapely, sheen, sightly, stodge, stomachable, stunning, sustenance, swanlike, tiffin, tuck, tucker, ugly, ugly as sin, unattractive, uncomely, unpretty, unsightly, viands, victual, victuals, vittles, well-favoured, winsome
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
esculent is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordesculent is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
esculent is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary