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racier

racier is the comparative form of racy.

Meaning of racy

Adjective

racy (comparative racier, superlative raciest)

  1. Mildly risqué.
    • She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
  2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
    • a racy wine
    Synonyms:
    fresh, rich
  3. (broadly, figuratively) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
  4. Involving a data race or a race condition.
    • 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)2014, Pete Goodliffe, Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code

Questions about racier

What is racier the comparative form of?
Racier is the comparative form of racy.

Words near racier in the dictionary

  1. raciation
  2. raciations
  3. Racibórz
  4. Racicot
  5. Racicots
  6. racier
  7. raciest
  8. racily
  9. racin'
  10. Racine
  11. Racine County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: racier (page history and authors); racy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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