Salty

Quick meaning: Salty is an adjective meaning Tasting of salt.

Meaning

Tasting of salt.

More Meanings

1. Containing salt.
2. (figuratively, of language) Coarse; provocative; earthy.
3. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
4. (linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).
5. (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter.

Example Sentences

(In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)

In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.

Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.

There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.

Word Forms

• saltier
• saltiest

Synonyms for salty

Depending on context, synonyms include saline, salt, piquant, stimulating, tasteful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saline, salt, piquant, stimulating, tasteful, salted.

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