🥲 Too emotional 🌲 Full of sap

sappy

25 7.0

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

adjective
/ˈsæpi/

Offensive

: empalagoso

He always gets a bit sappy when we talk about his childhood memories.
sappy movies
sappy love song
sappy love

So with that being said, enough of the sappy stuff, let's get on to a the rest of the great hilarious episode.

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Examples

You guys, don't go getting sappy on me now.

Gangland (2001)
This is about to get pretty sappy, so I'm just gonna give you the highlights.

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Again, sorry to get sappy, but when Mom says to pay attention to someone,

Blog text (31)
If this conclusion sounds rather sappy, it is because it is.

Academic text (2002)
OK, I'm going to get a little sappy, but it would be my mom.
And that's the last sappy moment of this podcast.
You're not afraid to say sappy, sentimental stuff like that.

The Unbreakable Boy (2025)
It's sappy and corny.

Restless (2011)
I tried watching Bokura ga Ita but found it a little too sappy and mawkish.

Blog text (22)
The Troubadours were wandering minstrels and dramatists who sang melodramatic and sappy songs of undying love.

Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

sentimental

vssappy

147 4.5

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

is more excessive and often seems insincere or silly

cheesy

vssappy

Informal

82 4.6

Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card

is similar but often seen as more simply silly than cheap

melodramatic

vssappy

31 5.6

Showing feelings in a way that is too strong

is similarly overdone but more likely viewed as naive sentiment

mushy

vssappy

Informal

31 4.3

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

is more often seen as plainly insincere or ridiculous

cutesy

vssappy

Informal

16 7.2

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

is similarly affected but more clearly sentimental than playful

hokey

vssappy

Informal

13 8.2

Showing fake feeling and too much emotion

is similar but usually judged more childish than fake

kitschy

vssappy

9 8.2

Too sentimental or brightly decorated and not in good taste

is more plain sentimental silliness rather than flashy or gaudy

maudlin

vssappy

8 8.0

Too emotional in a way that seems silly or not sincere

is similarly emotional but more often seen as silly than pitiful

sloppy

vssappy

7 3.7

Too emotional in a way that seems not sincere

is similar but more clearly shallow and insincere

gushy

vssappy

7 7.0

Showing too much emotion in a way that feels silly

is similar but more likely judged as foolish or weakly sentimental

cloying

vssappy

6 8.2

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

is similar but more likely judged simply silly than disgusting

saccharine

vssappy

3 7.9

Being too sweet or emotional in a way that seems false

is similar but more often judged childish than merely sweet

overemotional

vssappy

3 5.0

Showing too much feeling for the situation

is comparable but more often judged insincere rather than extreme

soppy

vssappy

2 5.8

Too emotional and sentimental in a way that seems silly

is similarly sentimental but often sounds more insincere or silly

mawkish

vssappy

2 9.4

Showing feelings that are not real and too sweet

is similar but more often seen as weakly emotional rather than sickly

schmaltzy

vssappy

Informal

2 8.7

Too emotional in a way that feels false or silly

is similar but more likely to seem simple and silly

drippy

vssappy

Offensive

1 7.9

Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake

is similar but more likely judged as naive or childish

slobbery

vssappy

Informal

1 4.9

Too sentimental and not sincere

is similar but usually reads as plain silliness instead of drama

pappy

vssappy

1 8.6

Too sentimental and weak in feeling, often seeming false

is likewise weak but more often judged as silly or insincere

goopy

vssappy

Informal

1 7.6

Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake

is similar but tends to read as more plainly silly

slushy

vssappy

1 5.4

Overly sentimental and emotional in a way that seems false

is similar but more often read as childish or foolish

soupy

vssappy

Literature

1 6.8

Being too emotional in a cheap, false way

is more everyday sentiment that sounds silly rather than artistic

schmalzy

vssappy

Informal

1 8.9

Being very emotional in a way that feels fake

is similar but more plainly foolish or insincere in tone

torchy

vssappy

1 8.3

Showing strong feelings that make people feel sad or moved

is more about simple, silly sentiment than melodic feeling

cutesy-wootsy

vssappy

Informal

1 9.9

Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way

is also childish but more plainly sentimental than cute

bathetic

vssappy

Literature

1 9.9

Too sentimental in a way that feels fake or silly

is more everyday and simply feels insincere or silly

too soppy

vssappy

1 7.5

Showing strong, simple feelings in a way that seems fake

is equally excessive but more likely judged as silly than sweet

overly sugary

vssappy

1 3.7

Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional

is similar but more often judged as silly than merely sugary

marshmallowy

vssappy

Informal

1 6.3

Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style

is more often seen as silly or plainly insincere

gloppy

vssappy

Informal

1 8.3

Too sweet and emotional so it feels false

is similar but often sounds more merely silly than sickly

supersentimental

vssappy

1 8.9

Showing too much emotion in a way that seems exaggerated

is less extreme and more like ordinary excessive emotion

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

mawkish

2 9.4

sappy

Offensive

25 7.0

sentimental

147 4.5

touching

103 3.4

Surface Forms

sappy positive

sappier comparative

sappiest superlative

Morphology

sappy = sap (opaque) = sap + y

The meaning of 'sappy' as overly sentimental is not directly derived from the literal meaning of 'sap'.

Etymology

The word sappy also means 'too sentimental' and comes from the same idea of sap as sweet tree juice. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine a story so sweet or sticky it feels silly, which is why we call that kind of story sappy.