RACIER
RACY
racy
(adjective) designed or suitable for competing in a race
blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
(adjective) 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”
lively, racy
(adjective) full of zest or vigor; “a racy literary style”
racy, full-bodied, rich, robust
(adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor; “a rich ruby port”; “full-bodied wines”; “a robust claret”; “the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
racier
comparative form of racy
Anagrams
• Carrie, Cierra, carrie
Source: Wiktionary
RACY
Ra"cy, a. [Compar. Racier; superl. Raciest.] Etym: [From Race a
tribe, family.]
1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct
characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.
2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive
character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and
lively.
Our raciest, most idiomatic popular word. M. Arnold.
Burn's English, though not so racy as his Scotch, is generally
correct. H. Coleridge.
The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh from the plow.
Prof. Wilson.
Syn.
– Spicy; spirited; lively; smart; piquant.
– Racy, Spicy. Racy refers primarily to that peculiar flavor which
certain wines are supposed to derive from the soil in which the
grapes were grown; and hence we call a style or production racy when
it "smacks of the soil," or has an uncommon degree of natural
freshness and distinctiveness of thought and language. Spicy, when
applied, has reference to a spirit and pungency added by art,
seasoning the matter like a condiment. It does not, like racy,
suggest native peculiarity. A spicy article in a magazine; a spicy
retort. Racy in conversation; a racy remark.
Rich, racy verses, in which we The soil from which they come, taste,
smell, and see. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition