peppery.

1. Having a pungent or spicy flavor resembling pepper.

2. Quickly irritable or sharply spirited in manner.

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Words that belong together

• a peppery finish
• peppery leaves

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The leaves gave the soup a peppery finish.

A peppery bite followed the first mild impression.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: peppery; comparative pepperier; superlative pepperiest. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.