fizzy
Americanadjective
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fizzier,
comparative
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fizziest
superlative
Usage
What does fizzy mean? Fizzy is used to describe things that have a lot of fizz—a bubbliness or bubbly quality, like the kind in a carbonated drink. A much more formal word for fizzy is effervescent. Fizz can also refer to the kind of hissing sound that such bubbliness makes. Fizzy can be used to describe this sound or the thing making it. A fizzy drink that has lost its fizziness is often described as flat. Example: Someone must have shaken up this soda bottle—look how fizzy it is inside!
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Origin of fizzy
Example Sentences
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As Herzog moves the sisters between reality and film’s dreamy latter half, he plunges into the fizzy static that comprises their cosmic connection, examining their solitude as only he can.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The action, which is not bloody or at all deadly, has the fizzy charm and slapstick charge of prime Jackie Chan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
There's a fizzy anticipation in the air like a champagne bottle about to pop its cork.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Hawkers balancing basins of iced fizzy drinks moved through traffic, offering quick relief to commuters.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
The unexpected letter from Simon seemed to have made her brain go all fizzy.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
The rowdy good times that made the Pike/Pine corridor infamous aren’t gone, they just got fizzier.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
"I think we Russians like our kombucha a bit fizzier and stronger than the Americans," he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2018
The Globes, considered one of the fizzier stops on Hollywood’s annual awards circuit, are bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 85 of whom are active members.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2016
But if the outwardly impressive economy is to continue motoring along, firms, people and capital must be freed to move more quickly from unproductive sectors into fizzier ones.
From Economist ● May 28, 2015
Drinks seemed fizzier and colder than any drinks ever had before.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
What our tasters said: “Brightest and fizziest body of the bunch.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2018
Consider “Crazy Rich Asians”: As a deliciously conventional rom-com, it plunges viewers into the fizziest pleasures of the genre, including scenes of profligate wealth, promiscuous consumerism, sigh-inducing wish fulfillment and delicious clothing and food.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
“I think it has a cleaner taste, it’s definitely the fizziest and I really enjoy the slight salinity.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
If you don’t, you will be missing the fizziest, most endearing film in ages.
From Time ● Nov. 22, 2011
It was about to take control of the biggest retailer in one of the world’s fizziest markets.
From Economist ● Jun. 30, 2011
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