ADJECTIVE | all | salty, piquant | engagingly stimulating or provocative |
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all | salty | containing or filled with salt | |
all | salty | one of the four basic taste sensations |
Sounds | sao'ltiy | |
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Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... |
Meaning | engagingly stimulating or provocative. | |
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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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