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Synonyms for peppery

  • adjective

Most common

hot-tempered pungent choleric waspish snappish pepperish

All synonyms

Adjective

pungent, hot, hot-tempered, quick, choleric, passionate, hasty, waspish, snappish, pepperish, hot-headed, irascible, irritable, testy, petulant, touchy

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.

Related words

Word family
pepperiness

Example sentences

  • pungent Pungent fumes arose from the chemical mixture.
  • choleric It isn't easy to live with a choleric person.
  • waspish Why does Tom act so WASPish around them?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pepperyrising
pungentrising
cholericrising
waspishsteady
snappishrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
hot1
5 letters
quick1, hasty2, testy2
6 letters
touchy2
7 letters
pungent2, waspish
8 letters
petulant3, choleric3, snappish
9 letters
irritable4, irascible4, pepperish
10 letters
passionate3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hasty2 = 2 syllables).