sopping
adjective
sop·ping ˈsä-piŋ 
: wet through : soaking
Synonyms
- awash
- bathed
- bedraggled
- doused
- dowsed
- drenched
- dripping
- logged
- saturate
- saturated
- soaked
- soaking
- sodden
- soggy
- soppy
- soused
- washed
- water-soaked
- watered
- waterlogged
- watery
- wet
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Example Sentences
His clothes were sopping from the rain. my hair and clothes were absolutely sopping after the unexpected downpour
Recent Examples on the Web For a subtle sweat effect that stops short of being quite as sopping as Kim Kardashian’s at the 2019 Met Gala, liberally mist the crown of the head with a styling primer and scrape hair back with fingers to add texture. 
Amber Kallor, WSJ, 26 July 2022 With rainy running, having the right gear can turn a sopping, uncomfortable run into an epic adventure. Shauna Harrison, SELF, 26 Apr. 2022 The Ducks should have used the final play of sopping-wet regulation to send a message on Saturday night. John Canzano, oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021 Bay Area takes brunt of PG&E outages: Nearly 148,000 Bay Area households and businesses had no power as of Sunday evening as heavy rain continued to fall at the end of a sopping, stormy day. Rita Beamish, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021 In one scene, a sopping wet, half-naked underling hands Claire a document. BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021 Portland has emerged from a weather system that made for a sopping-wet end to the workweek. oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2020 See More
Amber Kallor, WSJ, 26 July 2022 With rainy running, having the right gear can turn a sopping, uncomfortable run into an epic adventure. Shauna Harrison, SELF, 26 Apr. 2022 The Ducks should have used the final play of sopping-wet regulation to send a message on Saturday night. John Canzano, oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021 Bay Area takes brunt of PG&E outages: Nearly 148,000 Bay Area households and businesses had no power as of Sunday evening as heavy rain continued to fall at the end of a sopping, stormy day. Rita Beamish, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021 In one scene, a sopping wet, half-naked underling hands Claire a document. BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021 Portland has emerged from a weather system that made for a sopping-wet end to the workweek. oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1877, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing sopping
Kids Definition
sopping
adjective
sop·ping
ˈsä-piŋ
: thoroughly wet
Her … jacket was sopping and she smelled like sewage. Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thiefsopping 1 of 2
adjective
as in dripping
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water my hair and clothes were absolutely sopping after the unexpected downpour Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dripping
- saturated
- wet
- saturate
- washed
- soaked
- bathed
- soaking
- sodden
- flooded
- drenched
- soggy
- damp
- waterlogged
- moist
- watered
- doused
- bedraggled
- awash
- water-soaked
- flushed
- soused
- soppy
- splashed
- drowned
- logged
- watery
- submerged
- dowsed
- rinsed
- overflowed
- inundated
- deluged
- dipped
- steeped
- humid
- swamped
- clammy
- dunked
- aqueous
- hydrated
- sluiced
- irrigated
- boggy
- dank
- laved
- dampish
- wettish
- sloppy
- miry
- seepy
- squashy
- semimoist
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dry
- arid
- unwatered
- waterless
- waterproof
- watertight
- dehydrated
- hyperarid
- baked
- bone-dry
- parched
- wrung
- thirsty
- sunbaked
- droughty
- sere
- sear
- ultradry
- water-repellent
- water-resistant
- freeze-dried
sopping
2 of 2verb
1
as in soaking
to wet thoroughly with liquid sopped the sponge with the detergent and began scrubbing the floor vigorously Synonyms & Similar Words
- soaking
- drenching
- saturating
- drowning
- dipping
- sousing
- washing
- impregnating
- immersing
- macerating
- submerging
- steeping
- soddening
- seething
- penetrating
- moistening
- marinating
- bathing
- waterlogging
- inundating
- presoaking
- watering
- swamping
- dousing
- swilling
- permeating
- hydrating
- water-soaking
- infiltrating
- dampening
- damping
- humidifying
- dowsing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- drying
- emptying
- searing
- draining
- wringing (out)
- dehydrating
- parching
- desiccating
- voiding
- dehumidifying
2
as in wetting
to make wet my book fell in the swimming pool and was thoroughly sopped before I could fish it out Synonyms & Similar Words
- wetting
- washing
- drowning
- soaking
- drenching
- flooding
- rinsing
- bathing
- watering
- dousing
- sousing
- moistening
- waterlogging
- dipping
- flushing
- sprinkling
- splashing
- soddening
- wetting down
- drizzling
- submerging
- damping
- showering
- bedraggling
- water-soaking
- saturating
- misting
- inundating
- dampening
- overflowing
- deluging
- dowsing
- sloshing
- hydrating
- laving
- humidifying
- moisturizing
- swamping
- sluicing
- bedewing
- rewetting
- irrigating
- aspersing
- dunking
- rewashing
- impregnating
- ducking
- steeping
- rehydrating
- hosing (down)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- drying
- scorching
- searing
- parching
- desiccating
- evaporating
- dehydrating
- wringing
- dewatering
- dehumidifying
- drip-drying
- freeze-drying
3
as in dipping
to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid hesitant to sop his bread in gravy, no matter how delicious, at such a formal banquet Synonyms & Similar Words
- dipping
- immersing
- dunking
- drowning
- ducking
- wetting
- dousing
- soaking
- submerging
- moistening
- sousing
- drenching
- bathing
- submersing
- flooding
- dowsing
- plunging
- steeping
- thrusting
- diving