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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But Tarasenko, 26, is unable to feed his caffeine habit, as his favourite fizzy drink is no longer in stock at his local supermarket.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Add a sharply dressed green salad, maybe something cold and fizzy to drink, and suddenly the food-court chicken bake has become a centerpiece.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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
A high-end fizzy drink brand sold in Waitrose and Asda is recalling cans of one flavour over fears they "may rupture unexpectedly", posing a risk of injury.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
If it was raining, they leaned on the windowsill, drinking warm, fizzy orange Fanta, and watched the swollen rain droplets trickle down the glass.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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
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
Choosing water over something fizzier may be a sign of cheating, says Clare McCaffery, its managing director in Britain.
From Economist ● Sep. 29, 2016
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
Its job market is probably the fizziest in the EU.
From Economist ● Mar. 12, 2015
If you don’t, you will be missing the fizziest, most endearing film in ages.
From Time ● Nov. 22, 2011
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