Salty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.
  • adj. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.
  • adj. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Tasting of salt.
  • adj. Containing salt.
  • adj. Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
  • adj. Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
  • adj. Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
  • adj. Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse ("self") instead of the Latin ille ("that").
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Somewhat salt; saltish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Somewhat salt; saltish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. containing or filled with salt
  • adj. engagingly stimulating or provocative
  • adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
  • Equivalent
    saline    saliferous    brackish    saltish    briny    stimulating    tasty   
    Cross Reference
    pickle   
    Variant
    saltier    saltiest   
    Form
    salty dog   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    saltish    souse    saline    brackish    briny   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    faulty   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spicy    oily    musky    rancid    briny    stale    soapy    clammy    fetid    earthy