racy
/ˈɹeɪsi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
adj
Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
adj
Involving a data race or a race condition.
Example Sentences
- "She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion."
- "a racy story"
- "“Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now."
- "a racy wine"
- "These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)"
- "We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code."