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What is the adjective for salivating?

What's the adjective for salivating? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb salivate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

salivous
  1. Of, like or resembling saliva; made up of saliva.
salival
  1. Relating to the saliva; salivary.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The elder is ever drivelling, the younger never has any salival discharge.”
      “The salival glands drink up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pour it into the mouth.”
salivatory
  1. Associated with or accompanied by salivation
  2. Examples:
      3. “Signals from nerve endings in the mouth evoke salivation by exciting the salivatory centres in the brainstem.”
      “There's a delicious, almost salivatory frisson to the way she discusses them.”
      “Sleep-overs took on the kind of salivatory anticipation that most children reserve for Halloween.”
salivalike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of saliva.
salivary
  1. referring to saliva
  2. Synonyms:
      3. parotid, parotoid, dribbly, drooly, runny, slobbery, watery
  3. Examples:
      4. “Pharynx, larynx, urethra, and portions of the excretory ducts of salivary and mammary glands.”
      “Surgical options in the treatment of sialorrhea include surgery on the salivary glands and ducts, and surgery to denervate the glands.”
      “Six salivary samples and five serum samples were also collected for comparison with condensate concentrations.”
salivated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of salivate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slavered, drooled, driveled, drivelled, slobbered, dribbled, slabbered, frothed, spitted, spat, oozed, watered at the mouth, dripped, licked one's chops, frothed at the mouth, dripped saliva, relished, looked forward to, eagerly awaited, hungrily awaited, counted the days until, watered, cried, moistened, wept, weeped, leaked, ran, run, streamed, welled, got wet, poured, exuded water, filled up, became wet, become wet, filled with tears … more
salivating
  1. present participle of salivate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slavering, drooling, driveling, drivelling, slobbering, dribbling, slabbering, frothing, spitting, oozing, watering at the mouth, licking one's chops, dripping, dripping saliva, frothing at the mouth, relishing, looking forward to, eagerly awaiting, hungrily awaiting, counting the days until, watering, crying, moistening, weeping, leaking, running, streaming, welling, getting wet, pouring, exuding water, filling up, becoming wet, filling with tears … more
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