syrupy
/ˈsɪrəpi
/(US also sirupy)
adjective
1Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup: syrupy puddings...
- Prepare the glaze: put the confectioner's sugar in a small bowl, and pour in some lemon juice, a little at a time, whisking until the glaze gets to the right consistency, thick and syrupy.
- The sauce should be reduced to a thick syrupy consistency.
- Bring to the boil and reduce it to a thin syrupy sauce consistency.
Synonyms
oversweet, sweet, sickly sweet, sugary, treacly, honeyed, saccharine;
thick, sticky, slimy, gluey, viscid, glutinous
informal gooey
1.1Excessively sentimental: a particularly syrupy moment from a corny film...
- The essay continues in the style of its conception and her sentimental and syrupy excess will have you cringing throughout.
- Valentine's Day is no longer only about syrupy sentimentality.
- If it sounds like syrupy sentiment, he's unapologetic.
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, mawkish, cloying, sickly, sickly sweet, gushing, saccharine, maudlin, emotional, trite
informal soppy, schmaltzy, mushy, slushy, sloppy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, drippy, cheesy, corny
- Miller integrator
- Millerism
- millerite
- Miller, Samuel Freeman
- miller's thumb
- Miller–Dieker syndrome
- millesimal
- millesimally
- millet
- millet ale
- millet-beer
- millet grass
- Millet, Jean
- mille tonerres
- mille tonnerres
- millet seed
- Millett, Kate
- millet wine
- mill fever
- mill field
- mill file
- mill finish
- mill fleam
- millhand
- mill-horse