kicky

adjective

ˈki-kē 

: providing a kick or thrill : exciting

also : excitingly fashionable

Synonyms

• breathtaking
• charged
• electric
• electrifying
• exciting
• exhilarating
• exhilarative
• galvanic
• galvanizing
• hair-raising
• heart-stopping
• inspiring
• intoxicating
• mind-bending
• mind-blowing
• mind-boggling
• rip-roaring
• rousing
• stimulating
• stirring
• thrilling

Examples of kicky in a Sentence

needing one last kicky experience in my life, I decided to try bungee jumping

Recent Examples on the Web

Reuniting with go-to Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote his kicky techno-thriller Kimi, the director tells a familiar haunted-house story but from the haunter’s perspective — literally, as the entire movie unfolds from a spectral first-person POV! —A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025

Pickens matches the kicky mood in a top and skirt from Bottega Veneta; bottegaveneta​.com. —Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024

Strange New Worlds has received high marks for its production design, with its kicky riffs on 1960s aesthetics as well as its further development of characters that have been around for more than half a century. —James Mercadante and Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023

Jalapeño–Sour Cream Cornbread with Honey Butter Give your summer cornbread a seriously kicky upgrade! —Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 10 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above