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[ sir-uh-pee, sur- ] / ˈsɪr ə pi, ˈsɜr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR syrupy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee. sentimental or saccharine; mawkish: a syrupy manner; a syrupy poem. Origin of syrupyFirst recorded in 1700–10; syrup + -y1 Words nearby syrupySyros, syrphid, syrphid fly, Syrtis Major, syrup, syrupy, sys-, sysop, syssarcosis, syst., systaltic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for syrupyAnd now here we are, some of us anyway, looking back with syrupy nostalgia to the Sam Goody days! Comedy Is His Calling: The Brilliance of Billy Crystal|Tom Shales|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Pour half of the syrupy liquid over the pandoro and apricot base. Ham, Green Bean Casserole, Easy Trifle|The Daily Beast|December 23, 2008|DAILY BEAST “You may come out now, my little ones,” she said in her most syrupy tones. The Italian Twins|Lucy Fitch Perkins Add one cup hot water and bake in hot oven until liquor is "syrupy" and potatoes are brown on top. Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners|Elizabeth O. Hiller
It may be concentrated in vacuo over a surface of oil of vitriol until it appears as a syrupy liquid of sp. Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley With a quizzical frown she showed him the sidewalk which the thawing temperature had apparently coated with syrupy iced coffee. Two banks of the Seine|Fernand Vandrem This may be known by the liquid becoming dense and syrupy in appearance. Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley
British Dictionary definitions for syrupy
adjective(of a liquid) thick or sweet cloyingly sentimentala syrupy version of the Blue Danube Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to syrupysucculent, luscious, oily, weepy, sentimental, romantic, mushy, mawkish, sugary, maudlin, wet, wistful, regretful, exotic, whimsical, glamorous, amorous, fascinating, colorful, exciting |