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Savory Unsavory Taste Delicious Opposite Save Seɪvəri Smell

Front savory
Pron ['seɪvəri]
Back 【SAVORY】
The savory smell of cooking pleased us when we entered the house.
当我们进屋时,做饭的香味使我们感到高兴。
【重点词汇】
savory adj. 风味极佳的, 可口的, 味美的, 味香的 反: unsavory
Vocab
savorypleasing to the sense of taste

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.

The easiest way to remember savory is that it rhymes with flavory — which is not a real word, but should be. Interestingly, the word unsavory — which is clearly the opposite of savory — is almost never used to describe food. If some a dish doesn't taste good, it, well, isn't good-tasting. If something is unsavory, then it's probably a person or situation that seems morally questionable. So, save savory for delicious food and save unsavory for things, people and ideas deserving of the adjective.

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