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SOPPY (soppier, soppiest)
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, soppiest Dictionary entry overview: What does soppy mean?
• SOPPY (adjective)
The adjective SOPPY has 2 senses:
1. wet through and through; thoroughly wet
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
Familiarity information: SOPPY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wet through and through; thoroughly wet
Synonyms:
sodden; soppy
Context example:
soppy clothes
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
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)
Context examples
It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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