Synonyms and Antonyms of racy
1
having much high-spirited energy and movement
- vivid writing and a racy plot that keeps readers turning the pages
active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, lively, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert, pizzazzy (or pizazzy), snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
dapper, dashing, spiffy
agog, alert, awake, open-eyed, up, wide-awake
agile, nimble, spry
bright, buoyant, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, chirrupy, effervescent, sparkly, upbeat
eager, enthusiastic, keen
frolicsome, impish, pixieish, playful
boisterous, bubbly, ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited
high-strung, nervous, skittish
indolent, lazy, unambitious
inert, lethargic, sleepy, sluggish, tired, torpid, weary
apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid
boring, dull, irksome, tedious
dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid
2
hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent
- a raunchy comedy with language that was a little too racy for an eight-year-old child
bawdy, blue, gamy (or gamey), lewd, off, off-color (or off-colored), ribald, risqué, salty, spicy, suggestive
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
clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene
innocuous, inoffensive
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian
correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
