Feisty

/ˈfaɪsti/

Synonyms for "feisty" (43 found)

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Closest matches (9)

Adjective(3 words)

plucky bold combative

Noun(1 words)

bantam

bearish bitchy cankered cantankerous churlish

Strong matches (13)

crabbed cranky crosscross grainedcross-grained crusty cussed disagreeable excitable fractious huffish huffy

Adjective(1 words)

fiery

Related words (21)

Adjective(9 words)

huffy scrappier scrappiest scrappy spirited spunkier spunky thin-skinned touchy

irascible irritable mean ornery perverse snappish spiteful spleeny splenetic testy ugly waspish

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

behavioral descriptorpersonality traitpositive trait

More specific

4 entries

boldness moxie pugnacity spunk

Collocations

6 entries

boldness bravado feistiness pluck sass spunk

Inflections

2 entries

feistier feistiest

Derivations

2 entries

feistily feistiness

similar

2 entries

sensitive spirited

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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The elderly woman was frail but feisty.

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This is one feisty man.

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Sami was super feisty.

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I think of them as feisty rather than uppity.

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