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DRIPPY (drippier, drippiest)
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, drippiest Dictionary entry overview: What does drippy mean?
• DRIPPY (adjective)
The adjective DRIPPY has 3 senses:
1. wet with light rain
2. leaking in drops
3. effusively or insincerely emotional
Familiarity information: DRIPPY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: drippiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wet with light rain
Synonyms:
drippy; drizzly
Context example:
a wet drippy day
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
drippiness (the physical property of being soft and drippy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leaking in drops
Context example:
a drippy faucet
Similar:
leaky (permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases)
Derivation:
drip (flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Effusively or insincerely emotional
Synonyms:
bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mawkish; mushy; sappy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy
Context example:
slushy poetry
Similar:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Derivation:
drippiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)
Context examples
Pollen, the same airborne material that wreaks misery during certain seasons in the form of drippy noses and itchy eyes, apparently can have an influence on weather.
(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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