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saltest

saltest is the superlative form of salt.

Meaning of salt

Adjective

salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

  1. Of water: containing salt, saline.
    • Why the Sea is Salt
  2. Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
    • salt beef
  3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
    • a salt marsh
  4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
    • salt grass
  5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
    • a salt mine
  6. (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
    • I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […].c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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Questions about saltest

What is saltest the superlative form of?
Saltest is the superlative form of salt.

Words near saltest in the dictionary

  1. salterns
  2. salters
  3. Salterses
  4. saltery
  5. Saltery Bay
  6. saltest
  7. salteth
  8. saltfish
  9. saltfishes
  10. saltflat
  11. saltflats

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