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oversalted

oversalted

3.1
Containing too much salt, the food tastes too salty
  • adjective
  • /ˌoʊvərˈsɔltɪd/
translation icon : salado en exceso
  • The food was unfortunately oversalted, making it difficult to enjoy.

Examples

  • Make sure not to add too much salt; the dish can easily become oversalted.

  • I had to throw away the soup because it was too oversalted for my taste.

  • It was tasteless, oversalted, grayish, like the clouds.

    Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

overseasoned
vsoversalted
4.9

Having too much salt, herbs, or spices that make the taste too strong

focuses on excess salt that is unhealthy or undesirable

Antonyms

unsalted
9 1.0

Food that does not have salt added

How Salty

oversalted
3.1
salty
61 1.0
salted
1.0
unsalted
9 1.0

Surface Forms

oversalted positive

Morphology

oversalted = oversalt (transparent) = over + salt + ed

Formed by adding the regular past-participial/adjectival suffix '-ed' to the verb 'oversalt', so the result clearly means 'having been oversalted'.

Etymology

Oversalted is made from over- meaning 'too much' and salt, so imagine pouring too much salt into your soup. That image explains why oversalted describes food that has 'more salt than is desirable or healthy'.