Salted vs. Salty — What's the Difference?

A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.

Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.

An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.

Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.

Salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

Witty; pungent; earthy

Salts Smelling salts.

Tasting of salt.

Often salts Epsom salts.

Containing salt.

An element that gives flavor or zest.

; provocative; earthy.

Sharp lively wit.

(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

(Informal) A sailor, especially when old or experienced.

(slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

A saltcellar.

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin self instead of the Latin that.

Containing or filled with salt

Somewhat salt; saltish.

Having a salty taste or smell

Engagingly stimulating or provocative;

Preserved in salt or a salt solution

Containing salt;

Flooded with seawater.

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

Found in or near such a flooded area

To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.

To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.

To provide salt for (deer or cattle).

To add zest or liveliness to

To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.

To which salt has been added.

Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.

Simple past tense and past participle of salt

(used especially of meats) preserved in salt