What is another word for tart?
617 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ tˈɑːt], [ tˈɑːt], [ t_ˈɑː_t]
Tart is an adjective that describes a sharp, sour, or acidic taste. The word is often used to describe fruits, such as lemons, that have an intense flavor. There are several synonyms for the term tart, including sour, acidic, piquant, tangy, and zesty. Each word conveys a slightly different nuance, but all are useful for describing foods that have a strong and distinctive taste. For example, tangy might be used to describe a citrus-based salad dressing, while zesty could be used to describe a spicy sauce. Whatever the context, these synonyms for tart are a useful addition to any culinary vocabulary.
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Similar words for tart:
- dry (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- pungent (adjective)
- racy (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- sour (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- unsavory (adjective)
- acid (adjective)
- acrimonious (adjective)
- bitter (adjective)
- bluff (adjective)
- brusque (adjective)
- caustic (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- crisp (adjective)
- curt (adjective)
- incisive (adjective)
- keen (adjective)
- piquant (adjective)
- pointed (adjective)
- snappy (adjective)
- tangy (adjective)
- Jezebel (noun)
- bawd (noun)
- dessert (noun)
- fancy woman (noun)
- food (noun)
- pastry (noun)
Synonyms for Tart:
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adj.
• dry • irritable- acid ,
- bellicose ,
- bitchy ,
- cantankerous ,
- churlish ,
- crabbed ,
- cranky ,
- cross ,
- crusty ,
- huffy ,
- irascible ,
- irritable ,
- peevish ,
- petty ,
- petulant ,
- prickly ,
- snappish ,
- spiteful ,
- surly ,
- touchy .
- effluvious ,
- nosey ,
- odoriferous ,
- whiffy ,
- more effluvious ,
- more odoriferous ,
- most effluvious ,
- most odoriferous ,
- whiffier ,
- whiffiest .
- abrupt ,
- acute ,
- ascetic ,
- astringent ,
- austere ,
- authoritarian ,
- basic ,
- bleak ,
- blunt ,
- brisk ,
- censorious ,
- chilly ,
- cool ,
- correct ,
- critical ,
- cutting ,
- demanding ,
- disciplined ,
- dour ,
- draconian ,
- exacting ,
- frosty ,
- fundamental ,
- grim ,
- gruff ,
- harsh ,
- hidebound ,
- icy ,
- imperial ,
- inflexible ,
- intense ,
- intolerant ,
- lean ,
- meticulous ,
- obdurate ,
- obstinate ,
- oppressive ,
- precise ,
- prudish ,
- puritanical ,
- raw ,
- relentless ,
- rigid ,
- rigorous ,
- severe ,
- sharp ,
- short ,
- spare ,
- spartan ,
- stark ,
- stern ,
- stiff-necked ,
- strait-laced ,
- strict ,
- stringent ,
- unbending ,
- uncompromising .
- more absinthal ,
- more absinthian ,
- more amaroidal ,
- more unsweetened ,
- most absinthal ,
- most absinthian ,
- most amaroidal ,
- most unsweetened ,
- un sweetened ,
- un-sweetened .
- Plain-spoken ,
- heartiest ,
- more bearish ,
- more blustering ,
- more breviloquent ,
- more plain spoken ,
- more plain-spoken ,
- most bearish ,
- most blustering ,
- most breviloquent ,
- most plain spoken ,
- most plain-spoken ,
- nononsense ,
- out spoken ,
- out-spoken ,
- plain spoken ,
- short spoken ,
- shortest ,
- shortspoken ,
- un ceremonious ,
- un-ceremonious .
- bad tempered ,
- badtempered ,
- gloomy ,
- ill humored ,
- ill tempered ,
- ill-humored ,
- illhumored ,
- illtempered ,
- mis anthropic ,
- mis-anthropic ,
- more difficult ,
- more ill humored ,
- more ill-humored ,
- more illhumored ,
- more nasty tempered ,
- more nasty-tempered ,
- more nastytempered ,
- morose ,
- most crabbed ,
- most ill humored ,
- most ill-humored ,
- most illhumored ,
- most nasty tempered ,
- most nasty-tempered ,
- most nastytempered ,
- nasty tempered ,
- nastytempered ,
- un sociable ,
- un-sociable .
- in tense ,
- in tenser ,
- in-tense ,
- in-tenser ,
- in-tensest ,
- more edged ,
- more honed ,
- more razor sharp ,
- more razor-sharp ,
- more razorsharp ,
- more unblunted ,
- most edged ,
- most honed ,
- most razor sharp ,
- most razor-sharp ,
- most razorsharp ,
- most unblunted ,
- quick witted ,
- quickwitted ,
- razor sharp ,
- razorsharp ,
- un blunted ,
- un-blunted .
- highlyseasoned ,
- more highly seasoned ,
- more highly-seasoned ,
- more highlyseasoned ,
- more well flavored ,
- more well-flavored ,
- more wellflavored ,
- more zestful ,
- most highly seasoned ,
- most highly-seasoned ,
- most highlyseasoned ,
- most well flavored ,
- most well-flavored ,
- most wellflavored ,
- most zestful ,
- pro vocative ,
- pro-vocative ,
- well flavored ,
- wellflavored ,
- with a kick ,
- with kick ,
- zestier ,
- zestiest .
- boiled down ,
- calling a spade spade ,
- calling spade spade ,
- in nutshell ,
- in sinuating ,
- in-sinuating ,
- laid line ,
- laid on line ,
- laid the line ,
- more right on ,
- more right-on ,
- more righton ,
- more short and sweet ,
- more short-and-sweet ,
- most right on ,
- most right-on ,
- most righton ,
- most short and sweet ,
- most short-and-sweet ,
- on button ,
- right it ,
- righton .
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- bittersweet ,
- brackish ,
- chocolate ,
- chocolatey ,
- fiery ,
- flavored .
- tart .
Other synonyms:
- Seductress ,
- call girl ,
- camp follower ,
- cookie ,
- coquette ,
- fallen woman ,
- floozy ,
- jezebel ,
- moll ,
- nympho ,
- nymphomaniac ,
- scarlet woman ,
- vamp .
- apple pie ,
- choux pastry ,
- cobbler ,
- crust ,
- flaky pastry ,
- flan ,
- mince pie ,
- pastry ,
- pasty ,
- phyllo .
- pointed .
Other relevant words:
- Acescent ,
- Acidly ,
- Catamite ,
- Chippy ,
- Chocolate Eclair ,
- Cotquean ,
- Escharotic ,
- Grisette ,
- Hetaera ,
- Hetaira ,
- Lorette ,
- Mopsy ,
- Pandowdy ,
- Quean ,
- Tartish ,
- Trull ,
- abusive ,
- acerb ,
- acerbate ,
- acetose ,
- acetous ,
- acidulated ,
- acidulent ,
- acidulous ,
- acrid ,
- acuate ,
- adult female ,
- amaroidal ,
- astute ,
- bad woman ,
- bag ,
- bakery goodie ,
- bakery offering ,
- baklava ,
- barbed ,
- battle-axe ,
- bawd ,
- beldam ,
- bimbo ,
- bitch ,
- biting ,
- bitter as gall ,
- blintz ,
- bluff ,
- boy toy ,
- brass ,
- broad ,
- bun ,
- cake ,
- call-girl ,
- camp-follower ,
- candy ,
- chippie ,
- choleric ,
- citrusy ,
- clitoromaniac ,
- coarse ,
- cocotte ,
- concubine ,
- confectionery ,
- corroding ,
- corrosive ,
- courtezan ,
- crab ,
- crabby ,
- cream puff ,
- crone ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- cynical ,
- cyprian ,
- dairy cattle ,
- dame ,
- danish ,
- demimondaine ,
- desert ,
- dessert ,
- disagreeable ,
- discourteous ,
- discriminating ,
- double-edged ,
- dowdy ,
- doxy ,
- drab ,
- dyspeptic ,
- easy lay ,
- edged ,
- fancy woman ,
- fierce ,
- filter cake ,
- flavourful ,
- floozie ,
- frail ,
- fruit tart ,
- green ,
- grouchy ,
- hag ,
- hard ,
- harlot ,
- harridan ,
- hot ,
- hussy ,
- hustler ,
- hysteromaniac ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-tempered ,
- inamorata ,
- incisive ,
- intelligent ,
- irate ,
- ironic ,
- kept woman ,
- knifelike ,
- lady of easy virtue ,
- lady of pleasure ,
- lemonlike ,
- lemony ,
- lobster tart ,
- loose woman ,
- madam ,
- minx ,
- mistress ,
- moody ,
- mordacious ,
- mordant ,
- nag ,
- nasty ,
- needlelike ,
- not smooth ,
- nymph ,
- nymphet ,
- old bag ,
- painful ,
- painted woman ,
- pate ,
- patisserie ,
- patty ,
- patty shell ,
- penetrating ,
- penetrative ,
- peremptory ,
- pickled ,
- pickup ,
- pie ,
- piece ,
- piercing ,
- poignant ,
- popover ,
- precipitous ,
- pro ,
- prostitute ,
- puff ,
- quiche ,
- racy ,
- rent-boy ,
- roll ,
- rosette ,
- rough ,
- rude ,
- salty ,
- sarcastic ,
- sarcastically ,
- sardonic ,
- satiric ,
- satirical ,
- savoury ,
- scalding ,
- scathing ,
- scorching ,
- sec ,
- sharp-worded ,
- sharply ,
- short-tempered ,
- shrew ,
- shrewd ,
- shrewish ,
- shrill ,
- sloven ,
- slut ,
- smart ,
- smart-mouthed ,
- snappy ,
- snarky ,
- snippy ,
- soured ,
- sourish ,
- spicy ,
- splenetic ,
- sporting lady ,
- stabbing ,
- stinging ,
- strident ,
- strong ,
- strudel ,
- tangy ,
- tartlet ,
- tartly ,
- tasty ,
- temperamental ,
- termagant ,
- terse ,
- testy ,
- timbale ,
- tipsy cake ,
- torte ,
- toy boy ,
- tramp ,
- trenchant ,
- trifle ,
- trollop ,
- turnover ,
- ungracious ,
- unpleasant ,
- unsavory ,
- unsweet ,
- unsweetened ,
- vehement ,
- vicious ,
- vinegarish ,
- vinegary ,
- violent ,
- virago ,
- virulent ,
- vitriolic ,
- vixen ,
- vol-au-vent ,
- voluptuary ,
- wanton ,
- waspish ,
- whore ,
- witch ,
- withering ,
- woman ,
- woman of the street ,
- working girl ,
- wounding ,
- zesty .
- Absinthian ,
- Chuffy ,
- Mumpish ,
- Unblunted ,
- absinthal ,
- acerbic ,
- acrimonious ,
- bearish ,
- bitter ,
- breviloquent ,
- brusque ,
- calling a spade a spade ,
- calling spade a spade ,
- caustic ,
- clear cut ,
- compendiary ,
- crisp ,
- curt ,
- dry ,
- erosive ,
- highly-seasoned ,
- in a nutshell ,
- keen ,
- laid on the line ,
- nasty-tempered ,
- no nonsense ,
- on the button ,
- piquant ,
- pungent ,
- razor-sharp ,
- right to it ,
- right-on ,
- short-and-sweet ,
- sour ,
- well-flavored ,
- zestful .
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How to use "Tart" in context?
What Is tartness?
Tartness is a descriptor for the sourness or acidity of a food. There are three main senses of taste: sour, sweet, and bitter. Tartness is a descriptor for the sourness or acidity of a food. Here are some of the qualities that make a food or drink tart: strong acidity, a sour taste, or a fuzzy, grainy texture. Tart foods are often enjoyed in cold, fresh, or acidic cuisine, such as salad or sushi. In many cultures, tart foods are considered to be refreshing and appetizing.
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
pie.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
acid.
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Noun, singular or mass
apple.
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Interjection
bollocks.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
cobbler.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Tart:
- tartt, tarte.
Hyponym for Tart:
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