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🥂 Slightly sparkling 🍾 A fizzy wine
frizzante

frizzante

1 8.6
Slightly sparkling wine that has gentle, small bubbles
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: 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

sparkling
vsfrizzante
36 1.7

A drink with small bubbles like Champagne or fizzy water

is less intensely bubbly, showing only light effervescence
fizzy
vsfrizzante
9 1.6

Having many small bubbles that rise in the drink

is gentler, showing only subtle soft bubbling
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
248 4.4

Not lively and often weak in taste or sound

still
1 3.2

Not fizzy and without bubbles

How Sparkling

effervescent
1 7.3
sparkling
36 1.7
frizzante
  • Specialized
1 8.6
still
1 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.