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racy

/ˈɹeɪsi/

racy adjective: mildly risqué.

Adjective

racy (comparative racier, superlative raciest)

  1. Mildly risqué.
    • She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
    • a racy story
  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
    • We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

racy meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

racy in Bengali

উদ্দীপনাপূর্ণ

racy in Malayalam

suggestive, risqué, naughty
അശ്ലീല, അല്പം അസഭ്യമായ, അശ്ലീലതയുള്ള, ദുരർത്ഥംവച്ചുള്ള, സഭ്യമല്ലാത്ത, അശ്ശീലദ്യോതകമായ

racy in Kannada

ಹುಟ್ಟುಗುಣದ, ಜೀವಂತಿಕೆಯ, ರುಚಿಕರವಾದ, ಆನುವಂಶಿಕ ಗುಣಗಳುಳ್ಳ, ಆವೇಶ ಉಳ್ಳ, ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣತೆಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ

Examples of racy in a sentence

  • The Victoria's Secret ad's racy image generated strong stopping power ratings.
  • Just 22% of men in the same age bracket admitted sending the racy shots, known as "pelfies".
  • We met online, exchanged pics, exchanged fantasies (mostly mine), exchanged racy pics (mostly hers), chatted, vidchatted.

All 20 example sentences with racy

Synonyms of racy

Forms of racy

comparativeracier
superlativeraciest

Origin of racy

From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y.

Words formed from racy

Words that rhyme with racy

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Questions about racy

What does racy mean?
Racy means mildly risqué.
What is racy in Bengali?
Racy in Bengali is উদ্দীপনাপূর্ণ. See Racy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is racy?
Racy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce racy?
Racy is pronounced /ˈɹeɪsi/.

Words near racy in the dictionary

  1. Racster
  2. RACT
  3. ractopamine
  4. RACV
  5. RACWA
  6. racy
  7. racy of one's soil
  8. racy of the soil
  9. Racz
  10. Raczes
  11. Raczka

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: racy (page history and authors); racy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); racy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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