syrupy
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈsɪrəpi/
:
siropeo
- She poured the syrupy mixture onto the cake, giving it a glossy and sweet glaze.
- syrupy thick
- syrupy liquid
- syrupy glaze
For my office, the drink was only a little bit bigger than the first drink, but it it was like thick, like a syrupy sludge.
- For my office, the drink was only a little bit bigger than the first drink, but it it was like thick, like a syrupy sludge.
- I I imagine like putting a warm syrupy kind of thing on my butt would be very nice.
Examples
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In the spring of 1965, the people of Selma, Alabama, welcomed me and my students to Brown's Chapel with cornbread and syrupy okra.
Academic text (1999) -
Then, slowly, he gave in to the rum, dark and syrupy as the weather.
Fiction book (2000) -
Warm, syrupy rain coats the city.
Fiction book (2002) -
The first time she brought him there, she poured each of them a glass of syrupy sherry and disappeared into the bathroom.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's thicker and sweeter, very syrupy, just like sweet and sour chicken.
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The ice cream falls from my hands and hits my shirt, landing in a syrupy mess on the shiny tiles of the Texxon floor.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then syrupy sweetness melted in my mouth and slid down my throat.
Fiction book (1999) -
She drank the sweet syrupy liquid and sank down again with a tired sigh.
Fiction book (1993) -
Tiny Anne, having shrunk with the years, perched nearer Lawrence's daybed, on the corner of the divan, and helped pour syrupy mint tea.
Fiction book (2002) -
To make matters worse, almost every trinket shop and tourist restaurant in town played a bizarre and never-ending soundtrack of syrupy 1970s soft pop, from the Carpenters to Roberta Flack to Anne Murray.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
126
1.0
Covered with a substance that keeps it on other things
32
3.2
Soft and sticky like warm chocolate or cheese
11
6.1
Thick and sticky so it does not flow easily
2
5.6
Thick and sticky in a wet, unpleasant way
1
3.2
Thick and sticky so things stick together
1
5.5
Thick and sticky in a messy way
1
9.9
Thick and sticky like glue or syrup
1
2.5
Food that is soft to touch with a sticky, melted inside
1
8.8
Sticky and messy with a soft unpleasant covering
Sticky and thick so it stays on hands or objects
A thick, not runny texture in food like soup or sauce
Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional
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Etymology
The word syrupy comes from syrup, which originally was a sweet 'drink' in Arabic. So syrupy describes something thick, sticky, and sweet, like the sauce you pour over pancakes.