salty
AdjectiveUS[sawl-tee]/ˈsɔlti/2 syllables
Synonyms:
piquant
Open English WordNet
Adjective (3)saltier, saltiest
- engagingly stimulating or provocative“a piquant wit”“salty language”Synonyms: piquantOpposite unexcitingSimilar stimulating
- containing or filled with salt“salt water”Opposite freshSimilar saline, saltish, saliferous, brackishSee also tasty
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea waterOpposite tastelessSimilar tasty
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Translations
Adjective tasting of salt
- Spanish
- salado
- French
- salé
- German
- salzig
- Italian
- salato
- Portuguese
- salgado
- Turkish
- tuzlu
- Russian
- солёный soljónyj
- Arabic
- مَالِح māliḥ
- Chinese
- 咸 xián
- Japanese
- 塩辛い shiokarai
34 more languages
- Dutch
- zout
- Polish
- słony
- Swedish
- salt
- Greek
- αλμυρός almyrós
- Korean
- 짜다 jjada
- Indonesian
- asin
- Vietnamese
- mặn
- Hungarian
- sós
- Portuguese (PT)
- salgado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 鹹 xián
- Albanian
- i kripur
- Breton
- sall
- Catalan
- salat
- Czech
- slaný
- Danish
- salt
- Esperanto
- sala
- Estonian
- soolane
- Finnish
- suolainen
- Georgian
- მარილიანი mariliani
- Hebrew
- מָלוּחַ malúakh
- Icelandic
- saltur
- Kurdish
- şor
- Latvian
- sāļš
- Lithuanian
- sūrus
- Malagasy
- masina
- Norwegian
- salt
- Romanian
- sărat
- Scottish Gaelic
- saillte
- Serbo-Croatian
- slan
- Slovak
- slaný
- Slovenian
- slan
- Swahili
- -a chumvi
- Welsh
- hallt
- Yiddish
- זאַלציק zaltsik
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Salt′y (sa̤lt′y̆), adjective
1. Containing salt; tasting of salt; saltish; as, the salty sea; the potatoes are too salty. [ + ]
2. Interesting and witty; piquant; — of discourse.
3. Racy; sexually suggestive; — of discourse.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors