spicy
adjectiveHow many syllables in spicy?
There are 2 syllables in the word spicy.How to pronounce spicy:
Definition of spicy:
- spicy (adjective):
- strongly flavoured with spices
- suggestive of sexual impropriety.
- having the quality, flavor, or fragrance of spice
Synonyms for spicy:
aromatic
bawdy
blue
coarse
crude
earthy
flavoursome
gamey
gamy
hot
juicy
lewd
nasty
naughty
obscene
off
off-color
off-colored
piquant
pornographic
pungent
racy
ribald
risqué
salty
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Antonyms for spicy:
blah
bland
blunt
boring
calm
cheerful
clean
cold
cool
distasteful
dull
faint
feeble
flat
flavorless
flavourless
good
happy
insipid
kind
light
meek
mellow
mild
moderate
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- mercy
- imply
- faded
- suffer
- regrets
- mommy
- Bella
- shoulder
- digger
- damage
- adore
- fourteen
- nervous
- lover
- on ice
- refrain
- blending
- mistakes
- crusty
- driver
- meanless
- countries
- squirrels
- in-world
- really
- people
- teachers
- checker
- squirrel
- pumpkins
- poetry
- about
- over
- only
- lion
- pumpkin
- music
- always
- English
- boastful
- mannered
- tightly
- displace
- daily
- gotcha
- demons
- solute
- jejune
- busy
- anger
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Syllable Fun Fact
In English, certain prefixes and suffixes, when added to a base word, can change its syllable count, as with 'happy' (2 syllables) becoming 'unhappiness' (4 syllables).
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