Synonyms and Antonyms of salty
1
of, relating to, or containing salt
- salty sea water is safe to swim in, but you really shouldn't swallow it
2
hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent
- salty language that earned the movie an R rating
bawdy, blue, gamy (or gamey), lewd, off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, ribald, risqué, 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
3
sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses
- a salty, insightful analysis of male-female relationships
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
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
