English-Thai Dictionary

spicy

ADJ เผ็ดร้อน  มีรส เผ็ด  hot peppery strong flat bland insipid ped-ron

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPICY

a.[from spice. ] 1. Producing spice; abounding with spices; as the spicy shore of Arabia.
2. Having the qualities of spice; fragrant; aromatic; as spicy plants. Led by new stars and borne by spicy gales.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SPICY

Spi "cy, a. [Compar. Spicier; superl. Spiciest.] Etym: [From Spice. ]

 

1. Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes. "The spicy nut-brown ale. " Milton. Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. Pope.

 

2. Producing, or abounding with, spices. In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. Dryden.

 

3. Fig. : Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.

 

Syn. -- Aromatic; fragrant; smart; pungent; pointed; keen. See Racy.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

spicy

spic y |ˈspīsē ˈspaɪsi | ▶adjective ( spicier, spiciest ) flavored with or fragrant with spice: pasta in a spicy tomato sauce.

 

Oxford Dictionary

spicy

spicy |ˈspʌɪsi | ▶adjective ( spicier, spiciest ) flavoured with or fragrant with spice: pasta in a spicy tomato sauce. • exciting or entertaining, especially through being mildly indecent: spicy jokes and suggestive songs. DERIVATIVES spicily adverb, spiciness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

spicy

spicy adjective 1 a spicy casserole: hot, peppery, piquant, picante; spiced, seasoned; tasty, zesty, strong, pungent. ANTONYMS bland. 2 spicy stories: entertaining, colorful, lively, spirited, exciting, piquant, zesty; risqué, racy, scandalous, ribald, titillating, bawdy, naughty, salacious, dirty, smutty; informal raunchy, juicy, saucy. ANTONYMS boring. WORD TOOLKIT See pungent . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

spicy

spicy adjective 1 a spicy sausage casserole: piquant, tangy, peppery, hot, picante; spiced, seasoned, savoury; tasty, flavoursome, flavourful, well seasoned, strongly flavoured, zesty, strong, sharp, pungent; rare sapid, flavorous. ANTONYMS bland, tasteless. 2 he regaled them with spicy stories: entertaining, colourful, lively, spirited, exciting, piquant, zesty, zestful; risqué, racy, salty, scandalous, ribald, suggestive, titillating, bawdy, naughty, salacious, off colour, indelicate, immodest, dirty, smutty; informal raunchy, juicy; Brit. informal saucy, fruity; N. Amer. informal gamy. ANTONYMS boring, dull, clean. WORD TOOLKIT spicy See pungent . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

spicy

spic y /spáɪsi /形容詞 1 香辛料の利いた .2 〈話 言葉などが 〉痛快な ; 〈冗談などが 〉無礼な, きわどい .sp í c i ly 副詞 sp í c i ness 名詞