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ADJECTIVE salty COMPARATIVE saltier SUPERLATIVE saltiest

salty English

Meaning salty meaning

What does salty mean?

Definitions in simple English

salty Adjective

— If something is salty, it tastes of salt. The chips are salty.

salty

— adjective (= piquant) engagingly stimulating or provocative a piquant wit salty language — adjective one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water — adjective containing or filled with salt salt water

Synonyms salty synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as salty?

salty English » English

salted brackish saline salt briny bitter sour bad tasting spicy sweet saltish piquant alkaline trenchant tough tart stringent strident stingy stinging stiff spoiled spiky somewhat smart slightly salt slick shrill sharp savory salt solution salsamentarious saliniferous ready quick-witted pungent pointed piercing perspicacious perceptive peaky peaked painful off-color obscene more or less mordant mordacious marine knit

Topics salty topics

What do people use salty to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive

Taste

What words describe something that has a salty taste?

salty

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

What words describe a person's sense of humor?

witty comic jocular droll smart dry wit slapstick fun facetious waggish comical salty

Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Salt

What words refer to salt?

salt salty saline to salt grain of salt

Examples salty examples

How do I use salty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

How salty is too salty?

You can not drink the seawater, for it is too salty.

This food is too salty.

This water is a little salty.

This soup is too salty to eat.

How salty this soup is!

You can't drink seawater because it is too salty.

The soup is too salty.

You can't drink seawater because it's too salty.

What's your favorite salty snack?

Is it too salty?

Movie subtitles

Mighty salty.

Oh, you look so fresh and salty.

It's salty already!

And make it a salty one.

It is salty?

The fish was so salty.

They served some kind of salty fish eggs, but I didn't like 'em.

We hill people don't like salty waters.

It's a bit salty.

Oh. Was it salty?

A little salty, yes.

Too salty?

You thought it was too salty.

Seawater's too salty.

Oh, this caviar is salty.

Oh, that caviar was so salty.

The Reds gave us such a push, we'll run all the way to the sea now until we end up with our ass in the salty water.

So, that's why this place is so salty?

No reason to get salty.

It's illegal to use sand this salty.

An annoying detail, however, which I didn't mention, Professor, is that the blue orange in its current state is not yet edible - it has a bitter taste and is horribly salty.

If you don't milk a cow regularly the milk goes salty and you might lose the cow.

All salty.

They taste salty, but they work wonders.

Dad, you know why sea water is salty?

This tap water is salty, and there's no salmon in it!

Why is sea water salty?

You are all salty.

Is the water salty?

I've swam kilometres in the sea, the water is salty there.

You have a pretty salty vocabulary for a street duchess.

My bacon's a bit salty.

I had a salty smell, yes, because I felt nice and tired and I fell asleep so I fell into bed.

Four years it's salty sweat and blood with no end.

And then my pizza will be salty.

News and current affairs

There are prodigious quantities of water on the globe, but most of it is salty ocean water and brackish groundwater.

I personally blame some hardwired human instinct for sitting around eating salty, greasy, sugary snacks in preference to hard physical labor.

We just have to go smell the salty spray.

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