🥣 Thick and sticky 💖 Overly sentimental

gloppy

8.3

Too sweet and emotional so it feels false

adjective
/ˈɡlɑːpi/

Informal

: cursi

Examples

It's very shiny, It's not overly gloppy and it just it feels so much like Mac.
That made the skin too gloppy, made the pores more visible, was too shiny or glowy just did nothing at all.
Green, gloppy, lullaby.

Lockout (2012)
I had one friend, an Indian woman who you think would be okay with sweet, gloppy desserts, tell me after tasting it that it was like she just got a mouthful of cum, except sweeter.

Blog text (25)
The movie was filled with gloppy sentiments that made it hard to watch without rolling my eyes.
Her speech was so gloppy with emotional clichés that it lost all impact and felt insincere.
I found the book's gloppy romance unnecessary and distracting from the main plot.

Synonyms

sentimental

vsgloppy

165 4.5

Having strong warm feelings about people or things from the past, often too emotional

is more sickly and unpleasantly sweet than simply tender or nostalgic

cheesy

vsgloppy

Informal

56 4.6

Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card

is more about sickly overpowering sweetness than tacky poor taste

mushy

vsgloppy

Informal

27 4.3

Showing too much emotion in a way that seems silly or fake

is more intensely sickeningly sweet rather than merely soft or tender

sappy

vsgloppy

Offensive

23 7.0

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

is heavier and more sickly sweet than simply silly or childish feeling

cutesy

vsgloppy

Informal

16 7.2

To try to seem very sweet and childish in a fake way

is heavier in cloying sweetness rather than just naive childish charm

maudlin

vsgloppy

8 8.0

Too emotional in a way that seems silly or not sincere

is less about overt tears and more about sickly cloying sweetness

gushy

vsgloppy

6 7.0

Showing too much emotion in a way that feels silly

is more about a sickly cloying sweetness than simply open emotion

cloying

vsgloppy

3 8.2

Too sweet or emotional in a way that makes you feel sick

is the broader label for such sickly overly sentimental style

mawkish

vsgloppy

2 9.4

Showing feelings that are not real and too sweet

is the sickly sweetness often unpleasant rather than merely insincere

schmaltzy

vsgloppy

Informal

2 8.7

Too emotional in a way that feels false or silly

is heavier on sickly sweetness and unpleasant sentiment than mere tackiness

drippy

vsgloppy

Offensive

1 7.9

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

is more sickly sweet and unpleasant than merely embarrassing sentiment

soppy

vsgloppy

1 5.8

Too emotional and sentimental in a way that seems silly

is more about unpleasant sugary sweetness than simple insincerity

treacly

vsgloppy

1 8.1

Too sweet or emotional in a way that feels false

is more likely to stress unpleasant cloying sweetness rather than mild warmth

slushy

vsgloppy

1 5.4

Overly sentimental and emotional in a way that seems false

is stronger in sickly sweetness than merely shallow sentimental style

oversweet

vsgloppy

1 3.9

Too sweet in taste or too emotional in style

is used when sentiment becomes unpleasantly sugary rather than simply warm

cutesy-wootsy

vsgloppy

Informal

1 9.9

Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way

is deeper and heavy sentimental sweetness rather than playful childish cuteness

too soppy

vsgloppy

7.5

Showing strong, simple feelings in a way that seems fake

is the same but stresses unpleasant sickly sweetness rather than mild sentiment

goopy

vsgloppy

Informal

7.6

Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake

is more about sickly sweetness than neutral gentle feeling

marshmallowy

vsgloppy

Informal

6.3

Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style

is harsher meaning sickly sweetness rather than harmless softness

overly sugary

vsgloppy

3.7

Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional

is more about emotional cloying that feels unpleasant rather than literal sweetness

schmalzy

vsgloppy

Informal

8.9

Being very emotional in a way that feels fake

leans more towards sickly cloying sweetness than just overdone feeling

soupy

vsgloppy

Literature

6.8

Being too emotional in a cheap, false way

is more about cloying sweetness across emotions not only artistic works

slobbery

vsgloppy

Informal

4.9

Too sentimental and not sincere

is more about sickly sweet sentiment than dramatic emotional display

pappy

vsgloppy

8.6

Too sentimental and weak in feeling, often seeming false

is more thickly sickly and unpleasant than merely weak emotion

cutesy-poo

vsgloppy

Informal

9.4

Too cute in a silly or fake way

is more strongly sickly and unpleasant than merely silly cute style

Antonyms

unemotional

11 4.4

Not showing strong feelings

How Sentimental

gloppy

Informal

8.3

sappy

Offensive

23 7.0

sentimental

165 4.5

touching

1 3.4

restrained

5.3

Surface Forms

gloppy positive

gloppier comparative

gloppiest superlative

Morphology

gloppy = glop (semi-transparent) = glop + y

Formed from 'glop' + '-y' where the literal 'messy/sticky' sense is clear, but the adjectival sense 'overly sentimental/cloying' is figurative and not directly predictable for learners.

Etymology

Gloppy comes from the small word glop, also heard as gloop, which names a 'thick, sticky mass'. A helpful way to remember the emotional meaning is to think of feelings so sweet they stick to you like syrup, so a 'gloppy' story is too sweet and feels fake.