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🥂 Slightly sparkling 🍾 A fizzy wine
frizzante

frizzante

8.6
Slightly sparkling wine that has gentle, small bubbles
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : frizzante
  • The frizzante Prosecco added a festive touch to the celebration.

Examples

  • It's like Moscato, only frizzante.

    The American (2010)

  • This frizzante wine is perfect for a warm summer evening.

  • I love how the frizzante sparkling wine tickles my palate.

Synonyms

fizzy
vsfrizzante
10 1.6

Having many small bubbles that rise in the drink

is gentler, showing only subtle soft bubbling
sparkling
vsfrizzante
3 1.7

A drink with small bubbles like Champagne or fizzy water

is less intensely bubbly, showing only light effervescence
effervescent
vsfrizzante
1 7.3

A liquid that gives off many small bubbles, like soda or champagne

is milder, with only a light or gentle bubbling

Antonyms

flat
297 4.4

Not lively and often weak in taste or sound

still
2 3.2

Not fizzy and without bubbles

How Sparkling

effervescent
1 7.3
sparkling
3 1.7
frizzante
  • Specialized
8.6
still
2 3.2

Surface Forms

frizzante positive

Etymology

Frizzante comes from the root fizz and the Italian ending -ante, which means 'doing' or 'full of'. So it literally means 'fizzing' with small 'bubbles', which is why we use it for something that is slightly sparkling.