soppy
/ˈsɒpi
/adjective (soppier, soppiest) British informal
1Self-indulgently sentimental: I look at babies with a soppy smile on my face...
- I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart.
- And with that unfocused and slightly soppy sentiment, I'm off to bed.
- If you're soppy and sentimental you may like it; but otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, sugar-coated, syrupy;
romantic, hearts-and-flowers;
British twee
informal slushy, sloppy, mushy, weepy, tear-jerking, schmaltzy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky
trademark Mills-and-Boon
2Lacking spirit and strength of character; feeble: my little sisters were too soppy for our adventurous games...
- Some story threads are underdeveloped, and Emily's soppy character is wisely ditched early on.
- I feel it is very insulting to be treated as a silly, soppy older woman.
Synonyms
silly, foolish, soft, feeble, namby-pamby, cowardly, spineless
informal sissy, sissified, drippy, wimpish, wimpy, weedy, daft
British informal wet
Derivatives
soppily
- Abdul, whom I also mentioned in my last post, has daughters of around three and five, and is soppily in love with both of them; I can't believe he wants them to be killed in any way.
- Wilde's biting dialogue is the perfect antidote to the sentimentality that a film about love, secrets and betrayal can so rarely avoid, but you'll still find yourself smiling soppily in the darkness.
- The lovestruck animals immediately gave up their nest-hopping and turned soppily monogamous, becoming doting and inseparable partners.
soppiness
- The spaghetti and cheese soaked up a lot of the soppiness of the sauce, but it was still soupier than it should have been.
- Warning: when it happens, there will be soppiness.
- Apologies for the overt soppiness of this tone.
Origin
Early 19th century (in the sense 'soaked with water'): from sop + -y1.
Rhymes
- requiredness
- required reading
- requirement
- requirer
- requisite
- requisitely
- requisiteness
- requisite variety
- requisition
- requisitionary
- requisitioner
- requisitionist
- requisition on title
- requisitive
- requisitor
- requisitorial
- requisitory
- re-quit
- requit
- requitable
- unprepossessedly
- unprepossessing
- unpreposterous
- unprescient
- unprescribed