feisty

Other forms of feisty

comparative or superlative

feistier

comparative or superlative

feistiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about feisty

What does feisty mean?

feisty means "showing courage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feisty?

feisty has 2 syllables: fei-sty. The stress falls on "fei". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪsti/.

What is another word for feisty?

Close synonyms include plucky, spunky, huffy, thin-skinned, touchy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feisty a common word?

feisty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.