You can not drink the seawater, for it is too salty.
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Salty
//sɔl.ti//
Synonyms for "salty" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
Related word relations
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188 translations across 100 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- i kripur adj (tasting of salt)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- ἁλμυρός adj (tasting of salt)
- ἁλμυρός adj (containing salt)
- ἁλυκός adj (tasting of salt)
Arabic
3 entries- مالح adj (tasting of salt)
- مَالِح adj (tasting of salt)
- مِلْحِيّ adj (containing salt)
Armenian
1 entries- աղի adj (tasting of salt)
Asturian
2 entries- saláu adj (tasting of salt)
- saláu adj (containing salt)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- duzlu adj (tasting of salt)
Basque
1 entries- gazi adj (tasting of salt)
Belarusian
1 entries- салёны adj (tasting of salt)
Bikol Central
2 entries- maaskad adj (tasting of salt)
- maaskad maasin adj (containing salt)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- masin adj (tasting of salt)
Bulgarian
3 entries- пикантен adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
- соле́н adj (tasting of salt)
- солен adj (containing salt)
Burmese
1 entries- ငန် adj (tasting of salt)
Catalan
4 entries- odiar adj (bitter)
- salat adj (tasting of salt)
- salat adj (containing salt)
- salat adj (pertaining to article usage in Catalan dialects)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- سوێر adj (tasting of salt)
Chechen
1 entries- дуьра adj (tasting of salt)
Chinese
2 entries- хан adj (tasting of salt)
- 鹹 /咸 adj (tasting of salt)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鹹 /咸 adj (tasting of salt)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 鹹 /咸 adj (tasting of salt)
- 鹹 /咸 adj (containing salt)
- 鹽的 /盐的 adj (containing salt)
Czech
1 entries- slaný adj (tasting of salt)
Dutch
2 entries- zout adj (tasting of salt)
- zout adj (containing salt)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 鹹 /咸 adj (tasting of salt)
Esperanto
1 entries- sala adj (tasting of salt)
Estonian
1 entries- soolane adj (tasting of salt)
Finnish
3 entries- rasvainen adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
- suolainen adj (tasting of salt)
- suolainen adj (containing salt)
French
3 entries- salé adj (tasting of salt)
- salé adj (containing salt)
- vénère adj (bitter)
Galician
2 entries- salgado adj (tasting of salt)
- salgado adj (containing salt)
Georgian
1 entries- მარილიანი adj (tasting of salt)
German
4 entries- derb adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
- gesalzen adj (containing salt)
- prollig adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
- rüde adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
Greek
4 entries- αλατούχος adj (containing salt)
- αλατώδης adj (containing salt)
- αλμυρός adj (tasting of salt)
- πνευματώδης adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
Hebrew
1 entries- מָלוּחַ adj (tasting of salt)
Hindi
1 entries- नमकीन adj (tasting of salt)
Hungarian
2 entries- sós adj (tasting of salt)
- sós adj (containing salt)
Icelandic
1 entries- saltur adj (tasting of salt)
Indonesian
2 entries- asin adj (tasting of salt)
- asin adj (containing salt)
Ingrian
2 entries- soolain adj (tasting of salt)
- soolain adj (containing salt)
Ingush
1 entries- дира adj (tasting of salt)
Italian
4 entries- arrabbiato adj (bitter)
- salato adj (tasting of salt)
- salato adj (containing salt)
- salso adj (tasting of salt)
Japanese
3 entries- 塩っぱい adj (tasting of salt)
- 塩っぱい adj (containing salt)
- 塩辛い adj (tasting of salt)
Javanese
1 entries- asin adj (tasting of salt)
Kaitag
1 entries- ччуму́с adj (tasting of salt)
Kazakh
2 entries- тұзды adj (tasting of salt)
- тұзды adj (containing salt)
Khmer
2 entries- ប្រៃ adj (tasting of salt)
- ប្រៃ adj (containing salt)
Korean
1 entries- 짜다 adj (tasting of salt)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- туздуу adj (tasting of salt)
Laki
1 entries- سووڵ adj (tasting of salt)
Lao
1 entries- ເຄັມ adj (tasting of salt)
Latgalian
2 entries- suolejs adj (tasting of salt)
- syurs adj (tasting of salt)
Latin
3 entries- salsus adj (tasting of salt)
- salsus adj (containing salt)
- īrātus adj (bitter)
Latvian
1 entries- sāļš adj (tasting of salt)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sūrus adj (tasting of salt)
Lower Sorbian
4 entries- solny adj (tasting of salt)
- solny adj (containing salt)
- słony adj (tasting of salt)
- słony adj (containing salt)
Macedonian
2 entries- солен adj (tasting of salt)
- солен adj (containing salt)
Maguindanao
1 entries- matimus adj (tasting of salt)
Malagasy
1 entries- masina adj (tasting of salt)
Malay
3 entries- asin adj (tasting of salt)
- bergaram adj (containing salt)
- masin adj (tasting of salt)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഉപ്പുരസമുള്ള adj (tasting of salt)
Manx
2 entries- sailjey adj (tasting of salt)
- sailjey adj (containing salt)
Maranao
1 entries- matimos adj (tasting of salt)
Marathi
2 entries- खारट adj (tasting of salt)
- खारे adj (tasting of salt)
Minangkabau
1 entries- masin adj (tasting of salt)
Mongolian
1 entries- давстай adj (tasting of salt)
Māori
3 entries- kurutai adj (containing salt)
- totetote adj (tasting of salt)
- totetote adj (containing salt)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- sûr adj (tasting of salt)
- şor adj (tasting of salt)
Northern Mansi
2 entries- солвалыӈ adj (tasting of salt)
- солвалыӈ adj (containing salt)
Occitan
1 entries- salabrós adj (tasting of salt)
Old Javanese
1 entries- hasin adj (tasting of salt)
Palauan
1 entries- mecherocher adj (tasting of salt)
Persian
2 entries- شور adj (tasting of salt)
- نمکین adj (tasting of salt)
Piedmontese
1 entries- salà adj (tasting of salt)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- soltich adj (tasting of salt)
Polish
2 entries- słony adj (tasting of salt)
- słony adj (containing salt)
Portuguese
4 entries- bravo adj (bitter)
- salgado adj (tasting of salt)
- salgado adj (containing salt)
- salgado adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
Quechua
2 entries- millu adj (tasting of salt)
- qullpa adj (tasting of salt)
Romanian
2 entries- sărat adj (tasting of salt)
- sărat adj (containing salt)
Russian
4 entries- быва́лый adj (experienced)
- соляно́й adj (containing salt)
- солёный adj (tasting of salt)
- солёный adj (containing salt)
San Juan Quiahije Chatino
1 entries- TyinqG adj (tasting of salt)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- slȃn adj (tasting of salt)
- сла̑н adj (tasting of salt)
Slovak
1 entries- slaný adj (tasting of salt)
Slovene
1 entries- slȃn adj (tasting of salt)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- سووڵ adj (tasting of salt)
Spanish
4 entries- atrevido adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
- cabreado adj (bitter)
- enojado adj (bitter)
- escabroso adj (of language: coarse, provocative)
Swedish
1 entries- salt adj (tasting of salt)
Tagalog
3 entries- maalat adj (tasting of salt)
- maalat adj (containing salt)
- maasin adj (containing salt)
Tajik
1 entries- шӯр adj (tasting of salt)
Thai
1 entries- เค็ม adj (tasting of salt)
Turkish
2 entries- tuzlu adj (tasting of salt)
- tuzlu adj (containing salt)
Turkmen
1 entries- duzly adj (tasting of salt)
Ukrainian
2 entries- со́лений adj (tasting of salt)
- соло́ний adj (tasting of salt)
Unami
2 entries- shëwàn adj (tasting of salt)
- shëwël adj (tasting of salt)
Urdu
1 entries- نمکین adj (tasting of salt)
Uyghur
1 entries- تۇزلۇق adj (tasting of salt)
Uzbek
2 entries- shoʻr adj (tasting of salt)
- tuzli adj (tasting of salt)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mặn adj (tasting of salt)
Volapük
2 entries- salerik adj (containing salt)
- salöfik adj (tasting of salt)
Waigali
1 entries- pistë adj (tasting of salt)
Welsh
2 entries- hallt adj (tasting of salt)
- hallt adj (containing salt)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 鹹 /咸 adj (tasting of salt)
Yiddish
2 entries- זאַלציק adj (tasting of salt)
- זאַלציק adj (containing salt)
Zazaki
1 entries- solın adj (tasting of salt)
Zyphe
1 entries- ei adj (tasting of salt)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The soup in the pot tasted very salty.
Source: tatoeba (36285)
The food the restaurant offered us was so cold and salty that it was far from satisfying.
Source: tatoeba (49714)
This food is too salty.
Source: tatoeba (56506)
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