Appetising means looking or smelling good enough to want. An appetising smell, hardly appetising, appetising food.
It is used about the look and the smell rather than the taste, since it describes what happens before you eat. The negative is commoner than the positive in speech, where less than appetising is a polite way of saying disgusting. American spelling has a z.
1adjectiveappetisingLooking or smelling good enough to want.
“The smell of bacon from the kitchen was very appetising.”
appetising is a quality.
Also accepted in games: appetizing
French
appétissant
English
appetizing
English, today
appetising
appetizing French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA