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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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
He’s an instinctualist, a fizzy catalyst in a world that ultimately follows its own logic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Although these findings suggest that fizzy water could slightly improve how the body uses glucose, the overall impact is very limited.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026
Hawkers balancing basins of iced fizzy drinks moved through traffic, offering quick relief to commuters.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
I often leaned on the window sill and watched the huge garage doors groaning up and down, the forklifts whizzing in and out with pallets stacked with crates of delicious fizzy drinks.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
There are hints of the pep and panache that enlivened fizzier jukebox musicals like “Pitch Perfect,” for which Cannon wrote the screenplay.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
It makes for a more festive, fizzier experience.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2019
Things are about to get even fizzier on East Pine.
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
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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