Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pasty

2 senses of pasty

Sense 1
pasty -- (small meat pie or turnover)
       => meat pie -- (pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough)

Sense 2
pasty -- ((usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers)
       => patch -- (a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole)

Antonyms of adj pasty

2 senses of pasty

Sense 1
pasty, pastelike -- (resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white")

INDIRECT (VIA colorless) -> colorful, colourful -- (having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves")

Sense 2
gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous -- (having the sticky properties of an adhesive)

INDIRECT (VIA adhesive) -> nonadhesive -- (not tending to adhere)

Similarity of adj pasty

2 senses of pasty

Sense 1
pasty, pastelike -- (resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white")
       => colorless (vs. colorful), colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)

Sense 2
gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous -- (having the sticky properties of an adhesive)
       => adhesive (vs. nonadhesive) -- (tending to adhere)

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