Synonyms of gamy

gamy

adjective

ˈgā-mē 

variants or gamey

as in suggestive

hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent

a singles bar where the conversations and come-on lines tend to be gamy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suggestive
• spicy
• off
• gross
• racy
• salty
• blue
• ribald
• bawdy
• lewd
• risqué
• naughty
• dirty
• off-colored
• off-color
• unpublishable
• barnyard
• earthy
• filthy
• pornographic
• warm
• vulgar
• coarse
• crude
• prurient
• coarse-grained
• raunchy
• nasty
• indelicate
• indecorous
• gutter
• lascivious
• obscene
• foul
• indecent
• unprintable
• smutty
• locker-room
• stag
• leering
• porny
• immodest
• X-rated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of gamy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Eating goat curry can mean doing battle with bone fragments, but The Russell’s kitchen minimizes this problem via careful butchering; the meat fell away from the bone in big tender chunks and also possessed none of the slightly gamy taste goat meat can have. —Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2022

The reindeer is gamy, such a distinct flavor. —Steve Thomas, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021

Wild turkeys were definitely eaten by the first European colonists, but these were small gamy fowls quite unlike the average farmed turkey. —Bee Wilson, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022

An intriguing pinot combining a New World sense of adventure with gamy flavors that conjure images of cherries, tree bark and the day’s kill on a grill tantalizingly out of sight, all wrapped in silky elegance. —Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021