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SLUSHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slushy mean?
• SLUSHY (adjective)
The adjective SLUSHY has 2 senses:
1. being or resembling melting snow
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
Familiarity information: SLUSHY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: slushier
Superlative: slushiest
Superlative: slushiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or resembling melting snow
Context example:
deep slushy mud
Similar:
unfrozen (not frozen)
Derivation:
slush (partially melted snow)
Sense 2
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)
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