Synonyms for salt
sɔltsalt

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1. saltverb

   Salty.

   Antonyms:
   desalt

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. saltnoun

   a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

   Synonyms:
   salinity, table salt, saltiness, common salt

   Antonyms:
   dull

2. salt, table salt, common saltnoun

   white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

   Synonyms:
   sodium chloride, salinity, table salt, saltiness, common salt

   Antonyms:
   dull

3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALTnoun

   negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

   Synonyms:
   salinity, table salt, saltiness, common salt

   Antonyms:
   dull

4. salt, saltiness, salinityadjective

   the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

   Synonyms:
   salinity, table salt, coarseness, brininess, saltiness, common salt

   Antonyms:
   dull

5. saltverb

   (of speech) painful or bitter

   "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"

   Antonyms:
   dull

6. saltverb

   add salt to

   Antonyms:
   dull

7. saltverb

   sprinkle as if with salt

   "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

   Antonyms:
   dull

8. saltverb

   add zest or liveliness to

   "She salts her lectures with jokes"

   Antonyms:
   dull

9. saltverb

   preserve with salt

   "people used to salt meats on ships"

   Antonyms:
   dull

Matched Categories

1. • Compound
   • Cookery
   • Cooking
   • Diplomacy
   • Preserve
   • Season
   • Spice
   • Sprinkle

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. saltnoun

   Synonyms:
   chloride of sodium, muriate of soda, common salt

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1. saltnoun

   Synonyms:
   chloride of sodium

2. saltnoun

   Synonyms:
   seasoning, flavor, savor, taste, piquancy, wit, sense, humor, old sailor

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1. List of paraphrases for "salt":

   sal, salts, sel, salted, saline, salty, salé, salado, lrs, salinity, saltwater, flushing, soli, sls

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1. List of known nicknames for "Salt":

   Stefan Alt, S.Alt

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How to use salt in a sentence?

1. Terry Lee:

   The bar at the hotel keeps the dismembered toes in rock salt in order to dry them out. (Downtown Hotel) We then sit them in rock salt for six weeks and they become preserved. We remove the toes from the salt each time we use them and try to rotate them each week.

2. English Proverb:

   Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

3. Amit Jatia:

   It wasn't as if we suddenly cut the salt in our foods one day. Our menu and sourcing teams have been working to make slight alterations for months now.

4. Jaimi Butler:

   Keeping water in Great Salt Lake is the biggest thing that keeps me up at night, we're on the doorstep of a catastrophe.

5. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:

   Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.