mushily
5.9
In a soft, mashed way like overcooked vegetables
- adverb
- /ˈmʌʃɪli/
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blandamente
- The vegetables were cooked so long that they turned out mushily and lost their shape.
Examples
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He mashed the bananas mushily before adding them to the batter.
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The bread had been left in the soup too long and dissolved mushily at the bottom of the bowl.
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The fruit was served mushily on the plate.
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She mashed the potatoes mushily for the dinner.
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The fruit had cooked too long and became mushily mixed with the yogurt.
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After simmering for hours, the beans turned mushily in the chili.
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The cake batter was stirred mushily until it achieved the right consistency.
Antonyms
How Pulpy
mushily
5.9
soggily
4.7
Surface Forms
mushily positive
Morphology
Etymology
Mushily comes from the word mush, which means a soft, wet mass like mashed potatoes or porridge, so imagine food crushed into a soft pulp. That's why to do something mushily is to do it in a 'soft' or 'pulpy' and semi-liquid way.