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gooey

gooey

32 3.2
Soft and sticky like warm chocolate or cheese
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡuːi/
translation icon : pegajoso
  • Look at the three layers, the base, the gooey caramel middle and the macadamia top.

And then in the middle is a core of just gooey, oozy, booey, Dewey caramel.

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Examples

  • She enjoyed the gooey texture of the marshmallow that stuck to her fingers.

  • It's so moist and like gooey and delicious.

  • And so it's kind of like a gooey cookie.

  • I like when the cheese is all melted and gooey.

  • Expose a pan full of wet, gooey batter to the heat of an oven, and it turns into a cake.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The menu calls it an ooey, gooey blend of three cheeses and ranch.

  • The melted chocolate cake was rich, warm, and gooey in the center.

  • After the rain, the ground became gooey with mud, making it hard to walk.

Synonyms

sticky
vsgooey
126 1.0

Covered with a substance that keeps it on other things

is softer and messier rather than only clinging
slimy
vsgooey
42 2.5

Covered in a wet, slippery layer, like on fish or rocks

is thicker and softer rather than mainly wet and slippery
viscous
vsgooey
11 6.1

Thick and sticky so it does not flow easily

is softer and emphasizes messiness over slow flow
gelatinous
vsgooey
9 5.9

Thick and sticky like jelly

is softer and more disorderly rather than structured and neat
doughy
vsgooey
6 4.6

Soft and slightly sticky inside like undercooked bread

is stickier and messier rather than only dough like
goopy
vsgooey
2 5.6

Thick and sticky in a wet, unpleasant way

is softer and less clearly unpleasantly thick
gluey
vsgooey
1 3.2

Thick and sticky so things stick together

is softer and more messy than purely adhesive textures
gloppy
vsgooey
  • Informal
1 5.5

Thick and sticky in a messy way

is softer and more food related rather than only messy
gunky
vsgooey
1 7.7

Covered with sticky, dirty stuff

is more food like and less about dirtiness or grime
melty
vsgooey
  • Informal
1 3.8

Soft and gooey when warm, often used for food

is stickier and more viscous rather than simply melting
soft and gooey
vsgooey
1 2.5

Food that is soft to touch with a sticky, melted inside

is used more generally, not limited to food descriptions
gummy
vsgooey
1 3.7

Sticky and likely to cling to your hands

is softer and messier rather than mainly adhesive
viscid
vsgooey
1 9.9

Thick and sticky like glue or syrup

is more about soft messiness rather than technical thickness
stickly
vsgooey
8.4

Having a wet, glue like feel that makes things stay on it

is softer and more messy rather than only adhesive
ghili
vsgooey
9.9

Sticky and thick so it stays on hands or objects

is softer and more messy than technical viscous descriptions

Antonyms

dry
791 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

325 1.0

Firm and hard so it keeps its shape, not liquid

Compounds

Food that is soft to touch with a sticky, melted inside

How Sticky

gluey
1 3.2
syrupy
3 3.5
gooey
32 3.2
sticky
126 1.0
tacky
  • Specialized
4 4.9

Surface Forms

gooey positive

Morphology

gooey = goo (transparent) = goo + ey

Formed from the noun 'goo' plus the adjectival suffix '-ey', meaning 'resembling or covered with goo', which is easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Gooey comes from the simple word goo, which means 'soft, sticky stuff', plus the small ending -ey that makes it mean 'full of' or 'like'. So gooey is an easy way to say something is 'like goo' — soft, messy, and sticky.