Word Meanings - PIQUANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being piquant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PIQUANCY)

• Relish
• Zest
• recommendation
• enhancement
• flavor
• savor
• gusto
• taste
• appetite
• piquancy
• sapidity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PIQUANCY)

• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to PIQUANCY)

• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• SAVORLY
  In a savory manner. Barrow.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• NAUSEATE
  1. To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust. 2. To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. Blackmore.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• PIQUANCY
  The quality or state of being piquant.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• SAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson.
• SAVORY
  The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• RECOMMENDATION
  1. The act of recommending. 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. 3. The state of being
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• ALETASTER
  See ALECONNER
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• CATASTERISM
  A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.