Stimulating or agreeable to the mind or senses; fascinating; charming.

Of speech, writing, performance, etc.: having a characteristic vigour, liveliness, or piquancy.

Of writing or discourse: Smart and pointed; pungent; having a flavour of the sensational or scandalous; somewhat improper.

Piquant; racy.

colloquial or slang. ‘Hot’, ‘warm’, lively.

transferred and figurative. Cf. spicy, adj. 7.