1. Containing salt or tasting of salt
   "salty water";
   - salt
    
2. [informal] Engagingly stimulating or provocative
   "salty language";
   - piquant
    
3. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a salty joke";
   - crude, earthy, gross, vulgar, coarse, ripe [informal]
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] Feeling or showing bitterness or resentment, often over something trivial
   "He was salty about losing the game"

Derived forms: saltier, saltiest

See also: brackish, brak [S.Africa], briny, indecent, saliferous, saline, saltish, stimulating, tasty

Antonym: fresh

Encyclopedia: Salty