savory

1. 1.

   morally wholesome or acceptable

   “a past that was scarcely savory”

   Synonymssavoury

   Antonymsunsavory
2. 2.

   having an agreeably pungent taste

   Synonymspiquantsavouryzesty

   Similartasty
3. 3.

   pleasing to the sense of taste

   Synonymsmouth-wateringsavoury

   Similarappetizing

Other forms of savory

plural

savories·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about savory

What does savory mean?

savory means "any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in savory?

savory has 3 syllables: sa-vo-ry. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /ˈseɪvɚi/.

What is another word for savory?

Close synonyms include Micromeria juliana, savoury, savoury, savoury, piquant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of savory?

The recorded antonyms are unsavory.

Is savory a common word?

savory is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with savory?

1 word rhymes with savory. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.