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salty

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of salty

1 of, relating to, or containing salt
  • salty sea water is safe to swim in, but you really shouldnʼt swallow it
Synonyms of salty

brackish, briny, saline, salt
Words Related to salty

hard
Near Antonyms of salty

sweet

clear, pure

freshwater
Antonyms of salty

nonsaline
2 hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent
  • salty language that earned the movie an R rating
Synonyms of salty

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

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 of salty

clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene

innocuous, inoffensive

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
3 sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses
  • a salty, insightful analysis of male-female relationships
Synonyms of salty

pert, piquant, poignant, pungent, savory (also savoury), zesty, zingy
Words Related to salty

racy, spicy

fiery, gingery, hot, peppery, vinegary

acute, keen

biting, bitter, cutting, mordant, trenchant

animating, energizing, enlightening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, piquing, provocative, provoking

ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, delicious, luscious, palatable, scrumptious, toothsome

flavorful, savorous, tasty

absorbing, arresting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, interesting, intriguing, riveting
Near Antonyms of salty

flat, flavorless, savorless, tasteless

arid, banal, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, dry, dull, flat, humdrum, leaden, monotonous, numbing, pedestrian, ponderous, predictable, stale, stodgy, tedious, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, wearying

bland, dilute, thin, watery, weak
Antonyms of salty

insipid, zestless

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