goloptious meal

9.9

A very tasty meal that people enjoy

noun

Informal

: comida deliciosa

She prepared a goloptious meal that left all her guests raving.

Examples

After the hike, nothing tasted better than the goloptious meal waiting for us at camp.
We enjoyed a goloptious meal at the new restaurant downtown.
That was a goloptious meal!
I just had a goloptious meal at the new restaurant.
After the hike, nothing tasted better than the goloptious meal waiting for us at camp.
She prepared a goloptious meal that left all her guests raving.
We enjoyed a goloptious meal at the new restaurant downtown.

Synonyms

gourmet meal

vsgoloptious meal

5 4.9

A meal made with very good ingredients and careful cooking

focuses on extreme tastiness rather than on quality or cooking skill

culinary delight

vsgoloptious meal

1 4.0

A very tasty dish that people enjoy eating

stresses intense appetizing quality rather than general enjoyment

Antonyms

disgusting

531 1.3

Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick

unappetizingness

9.3

A quality of food that makes people not want to eat it

How Tasty

goloptious meal

Informal

9.9

gourmet meal

5 4.9

delicious

49 1.0

tasty

175 1.0

plain

208 1.0

Surface Forms

goloptious meal singular

goloptious meals plural

Morphology

goloptious + meal

The modifier 'goloptious' is not a recognizable English word, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent 'meal' cannot derive the intended sense. Although the suffix '-ious' may cue an adjective of quality, the root is opaque and provides no predictable link to 'extremely delicious,' so the overall phrase is not compositional for learners.

Etymology

Goloptious meal may come from mixing the sound of gobble, 'to eat quickly', and the idea of delicious, 'very tasty'. Imagine someone happily gobbling a very tasty plate of food because it is so good, and that's why the phrase means 'an extremely delicious meal'.