🧴 Thick and sticky 🥲 Overly sentimental

goopy

1 7.6

Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake

adjective
/ˈɡuːpi/

Informal

: empalagoso

Some people enjoy goopy love stories, but I prefer something with more depth and realism.

Through the Internet, maybe this isn't just a goopy tangent.

Examples

His goopy speech at the wedding made everyone feel a bit uncomfortable with its excessive emotion.
The movie was filled with goopy romance, leaving many viewers rolling their eyes at the overly sentimental scenes.
That's why Netflix just announced A goopy new TV show.
There was a couple other goopy moments too that those are great reasons to watch and just like just to just for your jaw to drop.

Synonyms

cheesy

vsgoopy

Informal

82 4.6

Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card

is less about poor taste and more about making sweetness sickening

mushy

vsgoopy

Informal

31 4.3

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

is more intense in sweetness and can feel unpleasantly cloying

sappy

vsgoopy

Offensive

25 7.0

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

leans more toward sickly sweetness than plain emotionality

cutesy

vsgoopy

Informal

16 7.2

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

is sweeter and more likely to feel unpleasant than merely childish

hokey

vsgoopy

Informal

13 8.2

Showing fake feeling and too much emotion

is more genuinely sickeningly sweet rather than merely fake

maudlin

vsgoopy

8 8.0

Too emotional in a way that seems silly or not sincere

is more about a sweet, sugary tone than overt tears

sloppy

vsgoopy

7 3.7

Too emotional in a way that seems not sincere

leans more toward sweet, nauseating tone than mere bluntness

gushy

vsgoopy

7 7.0

Showing too much emotion in a way that feels silly

is similarly excessive but stresses sickly sweetness rather than openness

cloying

vsgoopy

6 8.2

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

covers the same sickening sweetness but with stronger emotional language

soppy

vsgoopy

2 5.8

Too emotional and sentimental in a way that seems silly

is equally overemotional but more focused on being sickeningly sweet

mawkish

vsgoopy

2 9.4

Showing feelings that are not real and too sweet

keeps the same sickly quality but with a simpler sweet tone

schmaltzy

vsgoopy

Informal

2 8.7

Too emotional in a way that feels false or silly

is more about making things sickeningly sweet than theatrical excess

drippy

vsgoopy

Offensive

1 7.9

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

is similar but stresses a sickly sweet tone rather than embarrassment

slobbery

vsgoopy

Informal

1 4.9

Too sentimental and not sincere

is more about cloying sweetness than dramatic overflow

pappy

vsgoopy

1 8.6

Too sentimental and weak in feeling, often seeming false

is stronger in sugary sweetness and more likely to disgust

cutesy-poo

vsgoopy

Informal

1 9.4

Too cute in a silly or fake way

is more about intense sweetness that makes the tone sickening

oversweet

vsgoopy

1 3.9

Too sweet in taste or too emotional in style

focuses more narrowly on tone that feels sickeningly sentimental

slushy

vsgoopy

1 5.4

Overly sentimental and emotional in a way that seems false

is deeper in sickly sweetness rather than simply shallow emotion

soupy

vsgoopy

Literature

1 6.8

Being too emotional in a cheap, false way

is more about sickening sweetness than just being overly sentimental

schmalzy

vsgoopy

Informal

1 8.9

Being very emotional in a way that feels fake

stresses cloying sweetness and sickliness rather than mere exaggeration

cutesy-wootsy

vsgoopy

Informal

1 9.9

Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way

is closer to sickening sweetness rather than playful childishness

bathetic

vsgoopy

Literature

1 9.9

Too sentimental in a way that feels fake or silly

leans more toward cloying sweetness than intentional ridiculousness

too soppy

vsgoopy

1 7.5

Showing strong, simple feelings in a way that seems fake

is similarly sickeningly sweet but with a slightly stronger disgust tone

overly sugary

vsgoopy

1 3.7

Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional

is similar but emphasizes emotional sweetness rather than style alone

marshmallowy

vsgoopy

Informal

1 6.3

Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style

is like that but more likely to cause disgust than cuteness

gloppy

vsgoopy

Informal

1 8.3

Too sweet and emotional so it feels false

matches the unpleasant sweetness but is more about style than texture

Antonyms

unemotional

10 4.4

Not showing strong feelings

stoic

1 6.3

A person who does not show strong feelings even when hurt or sad

How Sentimental

cloying

6 8.2

syrupy

4 3.7

goopy

Informal

1 7.6

mawkish

2 9.4

soppy

2 5.8

sentimental

147 4.5

Surface Forms

goopy positive

goopier comparative

goopiest superlative

Morphology

goopy = goop (semi-transparent) = goop + y

The form is directly derived from 'goop' + '-y', but the sense 'excessively sentimental' is a metaphorical extension (cloying/overly sweet) rather than a literal texture.

Etymology

Goopy in a sentimental sense uses the same image of sticky sweetness from goop. That's why we call a movie or speech goopy when it is 'too sentimental' or 'sickeningly sweet', like syrup that sticks to everything.