sea-salty
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Containing or tasting of sea salt.
Example Sentences
- "My sea-salty tears bring to mind my origins."
- "Suddenly restless, he walked to the doorway to fill his lungs with clean, sea-salty river air."
- "But the moans grew ever louder until they swallowed everyone in the room, and Johannes woke to the taste of his own sea-salty tears."
- "One can cry only so many / Sea salty tears / Oceans of missed kisses / Over the years"
- "He could close his eyes and see the sisters sitting right up front at his funeral, sea-salty tears raining down on the Sunday dresses they had not worn for years."
- "And here (and she would tell you—very against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears."
Etymology
From sea salt + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sea-salty (comparative)
most sea-salty (superlative)