racy

Speech parts

1. racy - Adjective

3. racy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.

Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lively spicy blue naughty rich robust spirited juicy piquant risque gamy gamey full-bodied strong sprightly
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Antonyms

dead proper BIG cold moral pure
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Phrases with the word

racy of one's soil racy attention racy joke

Derivatives

racier raciest

Anagrams

cray cary

Examples

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. H. L. Mencken

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English. Margaret Cho

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it. Michael Diamond

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy. Patrice O'Neal

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Charlotte Brontë

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Close letter words and terms

ractopamine RACV RACWA racy attention racy joke racy of one's soil