😕 Very poor quality 💪 Like thick rope 🥛 Sticky and stringy

ropey

9.3

Forming thick, sticky threads when moved or pulled

adjective
/ˈroʊpi/

: viscoso

In her death agony, her mouth gushed ropey spittle, and she howled like a beast!

Fuck the air said, passing a corner along ropey snot hitting a gutter to know something and fail.

Examples

After leaving it out overnight, the sauce became ropey and unappetizing.
The syrup had a thick, ropey consistency that made it difficult to pour.
The glue dried into ropey strands that were hard to separate.

Synonyms

viscous

vsropey

11 6.1

Thick and sticky so it does not flow easily

forms distinct gluey threads rather than just slow flow

thready

vsropey

8 7.9

Being thin and like a small string

is more viscous and makes thicker glutinous threads

stringy

vsropey

4 3.3

Having long thin strands that stretch like melted cheese

is thicker and tends to form gluey threads

ropy

vsropey

1 7.9

Like long thin threads that stretch and feel sticky

forms viscous or glutinous threads

rope-like

vsropey

3.3

Long, twisted, and strong like a thick cord

focuses on forming viscous threads rather than mere appearance

Antonyms

smooth

256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

How Viscous

glutinous

2 7.7

ropey

9.3

syrupy

3 3.5

runny

34 1.0

watery

10 1.0

Surface Forms

ropey positive

ropeier comparative

ropeiest superlative

Morphology

ropey = rope (semi-transparent) = rope + y

The sense extends 'rope-like' to viscous threads, a metaphorical or specialised extension that is somewhat predictable but not strictly literal.

Etymology

Ropey comes from rope plus the ending -y, so it literally means 'like rope'. This helps you remember the second sense: a liquid or substance that makes long, stringy, sticky threads is described as ropey because those threads look like tiny ropes.