Word Study
saltwater |
saltwater fish |
saltworks |
saltwort |
saltwort family |
salty
| salubrious
| salubriousness
| salubrity
| salue
| saluki
HYPHEN
COUNT IN NET
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
salty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective salty has 3 senses
- salty(s = adj.all) piquant - engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language" Derived form noun saltiness1
- salty(a = adj.all) Array - containing or filled with salt; "salt water" Antonym: fresh
- salty(s = adj.all) Array - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water; Array Derived forms noun salt4, noun saltiness2
Derived forms noun salt2, noun salt1, noun saltiness3
OXFORD DICTIONARY
salty, adj. (saltier, saltiest) tasting of, containing, or preserved with salt.
Derivative
saltiness n.
THESAURUS
salty
Attic, biting, blue, brackish, brilliant, briny, broad, clever, droll, facetious, funny, humorous, humorsome, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, marine, maritime, mordacious, mordant, nautical, naval, navigational, nimble-witted, ocean-going, oceanic, off-color, pelagic, pickled, pointed, pungent, purple, quick-witted, racy, rapier-like, risky, risque, saline, salt, salted, saltish, scabrous, scathing, scintillating, seafaring, seamanlike, seamanly, shady, sharp, smart, sparkling, spicy, sprightly, suggestive, trenchant, water-borne, whimsical, wicked, wittyROGET THESAURUS
salty
Saltiness
N saltiness, niter, saltpeter, brine, salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny, salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife, salty, racy (indecent), take it with a grain of salt, saltiness, niter, saltpeter, brine, salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny, salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife, salty, racy (indecent), take it with a grain of salt.
For further exploring for "salty" in Webster Dictionary Online