savory
Tasty, attractive to the palate.
Example
“The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.”
Other meanings
Either salty or spicy, but not sweet.
“The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.”
Morally or ethically acceptable.
“Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.”
Word history
From Latin "sapor" (taste, flavour).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “savory” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.