Synonyms for racy
ˈreɪ siracy

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1. racy

   Racy applies in the first instance to the pleasing flavor characteristic of certain wines, often attributed to the soil from which they come. Pungent denotes something sharply irritating to the organs of taste or smell, as pepper, vinegar, ammonia; piquant denotes a quality similar in kind to pungent but less in degree, stimulating and agreeable; pungent spices may be deftly compounded into a piquant sauce. As applied to literary products, racy refers to that which has a striking, vigorous, pleasing originality; spicy to that which is stimulating to the mental taste, as spice is to the physical; piquant and pungent in their figurative use keep very close to their literal sense.

   Synonyms:
   flavorous, forcible, lively, piquant, pungent, rich, spicy, spirited

   Antonyms:
   cold, dull, flat, flavorless, insipid, prosy, stale, stupid, tasteless, vapid

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1. racy

   Synonyms:
   fine-flavored, fresh, rich, pungent, piquant, spirited, smart, lively, vivacious, spicy

   Antonyms:
   flavorless, dull, stupid

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1. lively, racyadjective

   full of zest or vigor

   "a racy literary style"

   Synonyms:
   spanking, live, resilient, full-bodied, lively, robust, springy, gamy, bouncy, snappy, juicy, risque, vital, brisk, blue, naughty, gamey, merry, rich, spicy, zippy, full of life, rattling, alert

   Antonyms:
   immobile, spiritless, tasteless, unsexy

2. full-bodied, racy, rich, robustadjective

   marked by richness and fullness of flavor

   "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

   Synonyms:
   fat, robust, full-bodied, lively, gamy, juicy, copious, fertile, blue, deep, plentiful, risque, naughty, gamey, productive, ample, rich, spicy, plenteous

   Antonyms:
   spiritless, immobile, tasteless, unsexy

3. blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicyadjective

   suggestive of sexual impropriety

   "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, red-hot, spirited, hot, toothsome, mettlesome, gamy, zesty, bluish, fat, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, savoury, robust, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, spunky, blue, blueish, gamey, luscious, downhearted, lively, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, high, drab, gritty, patrician, rich, blue-blooded, game, spicy, savory, full-bodied, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, piquant, risque, low-spirited, voluptuous

   Antonyms:
   unsexy, immobile, tasteless, spiritless

4. racyadjective

   designed or suitable for competing in a race

   Synonyms:
   robust, spicy, gamy, lively, naughty, risque, full-bodied, gamey, juicy, rich, blue

   Antonyms:
   unsexy, spiritless, tasteless, immobile

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1. racyadjective

   Synonyms:
   that tastes of the soil (as wine), of a peculiar flavor

2. racyadjective

   Synonyms:
   strong (as peculiar qualities of thought or of expression), vigorous, forcible, of a distinctive character

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1. racyadjective

   Synonyms:
   fine-flavored, pungent, rich, spirited, piquant, fresh and lively

   Antonyms:
   insipid, vapid, tasteless, flavorless, dull, prosaic

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1. Charlotte Brontë:

   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.