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gingery

1 4.3

Tasting or smelling like ginger

adjective
/ˈdʒɪndʒəri/

: con sabor a jengibre

The spice added a gingery flavor to the dish, making it warm and aromatic.

Examples

I enjoyed the gingery tea, which was both sweet and invigorating.
Dajef's milk had a gingery aroma that I actually kind of liked.

Fiction book (2000)
If you want to try them slightly more cookie version, it's not very gingery and the texture's kind of wrong, but I appreciate the gift.
It had taken on a zippy, zesty, gingery flavor.

Blog text (16)
The cookies had a delightful gingery scent that filled the kitchen.

Synonyms

ginger-scented

vsgingery

1 4.0

Having the warm smell of ginger

also indicates the spice's flavor when tasted rather than only its smell

Antonyms

bland

22 2.0

Food that has a very weak taste and little or no strong flavor

odorless

11 3.0

Not having any smell

tasteless

11 2.6

Having little or no flavor when you eat it

How Spicy

pungent

19 4.8

spicy

136 1.0

gingery

1 4.3

bland

22 2.0

Surface Forms

gingery positive

Morphology

gingery = ginger (transparent) = ginger + y

A direct noun + '-y' formation meaning 'having the flavour or smell of ginger', which is a straightforward and productive pattern.

Etymology

Gingery comes from the spice ginger plus the ending -y, so it means 'like ginger'. It is used for a taste or smell that is warm and spicy, just like the ginger root.