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stewy

stewy

5.1
Soft, moist texture like a thick soup
  • adjective
  • /ˈstuːi/
translation icon : mugroso
  • It's traditional to use small pieces of the thin, spongy injera to scoop up the stewy goodness and transport it to your mouth, but utensils are available upon asking.
  • stewy beans

Examples

  • The chef preferred a stewy sauce to coat the pasta evenly.

  • A bowl of stewy beans, sided by a couple of chunks of fresh-baked bread and butter, made a fine supper on such a blustery night.

  • After hours of slow cooking, the vegetables turned soft and stewy.

  • The rice pudding was too stewy for my taste, almost like a thick soup.

  • The stewy mixture smelled delicious.

  • The soup had a stewy consistency.

  • A bowl of savory, stewy beans makes a fine supper.

Synonyms

squishy
vsstewy
  • Informal
32 3.0

Soft and easy to squeeze, often a little wet and spongy

is less springy and more uniformly thick and moist
mushy
vsstewy
18 2.0

Soft and wet like cooked vegetables or very ripe bananas

keeps a thicker, more cohesive body alongside softness
soupy
vsstewy
4 3.9

Thick and wet like soup that makes moving or seeing hard

is thicker and more solid rather than brothlike
squashy
vsstewy
1 3.6

Soft and easy to crush, often wet or spongy

keeps structure more intact despite being soft and moist
soft and gooey
vsstewy
1 2.5

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

focuses less on stickiness and more on soft thickness
thicky
vsstewy
6.8

A thick, not runny texture in food like soup or sauce

adds softness and moistness as well as mere thickness
pappy
vsstewy
7.6

Soft and mushy in texture like overcooked porridge

is firmer and thicker while remaining soft and moist
soft and ploppy
vsstewy
7.0

Feels squishy and a little wet when pressed

is denser and less about playful plopping, more about thickness

Antonyms

35 1.3

Firm and making a loud sound when you bite it

dry
27 1.0

Served without sauce or spread

How Moist

soupy
4 3.9
stewy
5.1
mushy
18 2.0
moist
105 1.0
damp
113 1.0
dry
791 1.0

Surface Forms

stewy positive

Morphology

stewy = stew (transparent) = stew + y

Clear adjectival formation from the noun 'stew' meaning 'resembling or having the texture of a stew'.

Etymology

Stewy comes from stew plus -y, where -y gives the sense 'having the quality of'. So stewy describes food or sauce that is thick, soft, and moist like a stew.