tasty
part of speech
adjective (tasty, tastier, tastiest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Having a good, pleasant flavour: "a tasty sandwich". tree →
2) Tasty can also mean clever or skilful at doing something, especially in a stylish way. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life people say food is tasty when they enjoy it. In healthy-eating lessons, pupils learn that healthy food like fruit and vegetables can be tasty too. Phrases: tasty treat, tasty snack, look tasty.
examples
- This soup is really tasty. tree →
- Strawberries are a tasty, healthy snack. tree →
- Grandma makes the tastiest apple pie. tree →
- The pizza looks tasty. tree →
- We made a tasty salad in class. tree →
- Honey is tasty on toast. tree →
- And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses and other flowers, and with arabesques, for he was a tasty, light-fingered fellow. tree →
note
Comparative: tastier, tastiest. "Tasty" means good flavour; "tasteful" means having good style (a tasteful room), a different word. Safety: something tasty is not always safe; never eat berries or mushrooms you find outside.
In the corpora
- Many cows now walk into a milking robot all by themselves, because it means a tasty snack and a lighter udder.
- His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha slang for really tasty).
- The best thing a guest can say about the food is SMAchno, tasty; the cook will smile and probably give you more.
- SMAchno means tasty or delicious; leaving the table without a DYAkuyu after the meal looks rude.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tasty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.