| ADJECTIVE | all | salty, piquant | engagingly stimulating or provocative |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | salty | containing or filled with salt | |
| all | salty | one of the four basic taste sensations |
| Sounds | sao'ltiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | engagingly stimulating or provocative. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "salty language" | |
| Synonym | piquant | |
| Broader | stimulating | rousing or quickening activity or the senses |
| Spanish | atrevido, picante | |
| Catalan | atrevit, picant | |
| Nouns | saltiness | language or humor that is down-to-earth |
| Meaning | Containing or filled with salt. | |
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| Narrower | brackish, briny | slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) |
| saliferous | Containing or yielding salt | |
| saline | Containing salt | |
| saltish | Somewhat salty | |
| See also | tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste |
| Opposite | fresh, sweet | not containing or composed of salt water |
| Spanish | salado | |
| Catalan | salat | |
| Nouns | salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
| salt | a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | |
| saltiness | the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | |
| Meaning | One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water. | |
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| Broader | tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste |
| Spanish | salado | |
| Nouns | salt, saltiness | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
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