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salt

noun

1 the temptation to add more salt to food should be resisted:

sodium chloride;

table salt, sea salt, marine salt, rock salt.

2 literary he described danger as the salt of pleasure:

zest, spice, spiciness, sharpness, raciness, saltiness;

flavour, piquancy, pungency, tang, bite, edge;

liveliness, vigour, vitality, spirit, colour, sparkle;

informal zing, zip, punch, pizzazz.

3 informal the bay was angry, as old salts would say:

seaman, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner, boatman, hand, crew member, rating;

informal sea dog, bluejacket;

British, informal matelot, matlow, matlo;

informal , dated tar, Jack Tar, hearty.

▷antonyms landlubber.

□ with a pinch of salt

you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt:

with reservations, with misgivings, with a grain of salt, sceptically, cynically, mistrustfully, doubtfully, doubtingly, suspiciously, disbelievingly, questioningly, quizzically, incredulously.

▷antonyms credulously, as gospel.

adjective

salt water:

salty, salted, saline, briny, brackish.

▷antonyms fresh.

verb

□ salt something away

informal

she had salted money away in Brazil:

save, put aside, put away, put by, lay by, set aside, lay aside, put to one side, reserve, keep in reserve, deposit, keep, store, stockpile, hoard, stow away, cache;

informal squirrel away, stash away.

salt Oxford Dictionary of English