spicy

spicy

adjective \ˈspī-sē\

spic·i·erspic·i·est

Definition of SPICY

1

: having the quality, flavor, or fragrance of spice

2

: producing or abounding in spices

3

: lively, spirited

4

: piquant, racy; especially : somewhat scandalous or salacious <spicy gossip>

— spic·i·ly \-sə-lē\ adverb

— spic·i·ness \-sē-nəs\ noun

Examples of SPICY

1. <a spicy suggestion that earned him a slap in the face>

First Known Use of SPICY

1562

Related to SPICY

Synonyms

bawdy, blue, gamy (or gamey), lewd, off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, ribald, risqué, salty, suggestive

Related Words

leering; barnyard, coarse, coarse-grained, crude, earthy, foul, gross, vulgar; dirty, filthy, gutter, indecent, lascivious, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, prurient, raunchy, smutty, stag, unprintable, unpublishable, warm, X-rated; immodest, indecorous, indelicate, naughty

Near Antonyms

clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene; innocuous, inoffensive; priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian; correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

Rhymes with SPICY

dicey, icy, pricey