Syrupy

//ˈsɪr.ə.pi//

Synonyms for "syrupy" (93 found)

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Closest matches (19)

honeyed viscous adhesive ambrosial amylaceous bittersweet candied clabbered clammy clotted coagulated curdled doughy drippy gaumy gelatinous glairy

Adjective(1 words)

cloying

Adjective(1 words)

cutesy

Strong matches (28)

gluelike gluey glutenous glutinose glutinous gooey grumous gumbo gumbolike gumlike gummous gummy heavy honeysweet inspissated jelled jellied jellylike maudlin melliferous

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mellifluent mellifluous moist mucilaginous mushy nectareous

Adjective(2 words)

honeyed honied

Related words (46)

nectarous pasty ropy sacchariferous saccharine sappy sentimental slabby slimy slithery slushy smooth sour-sweet starchy sticky stodgy stringy sugarcoated sugared sugarsweet

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sugary sweet sweet and pungent sweet and sour sweet as sugar sweetened sweetish syruplike tacky tenacious thick thickened tough tremelloid tremellose twee viscid viscose

Adjective(5 words)

precious stiff syruped syruplike twee

Adjective(3 words)

saccharine treacly viscous

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

Synonyms

3 entries

honeyed saccharine viscous

Related terms

2 entries

cough-syrupy maple-syrupy

derived from

1 entries

syrup

related to

6 entries

consistency overly sentimental sweet syrup taste

similar

3 entries

sugary sweet thick

Translations

22 translations across 11 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

xaropós adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

Finnish

4 entries

imelä adj (overly sentimental)
siirappimainen adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)
siirappinen adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)
siirappinen adj (overly sweet)

French

1 entries

siropeux adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

Galician

1 entries

almibrado adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

German

1 entries

sirupartig adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

Greek

1 entries

βαρύς γλυκός adj (overly sweet)

Hungarian

2 entries

szirupos adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)
szirupos adj (overly sentimental)

Ingrian

1 entries

änkkelä adj (overly sweet)

Italian

1 entries

sciropposo adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

Spanish

4 entries

almibarado adj (overly sentimental)
cursi adj (overly sentimental)
dulzón adj (overly sentimental)
empalagoso adj (overly sentimental)

Welsh

1 entries

trioglyd adj (having the taste or consistency or syrup)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The new generation of coffee drinkers, many of them young, black and upwardly mobile, are wrinkling their noses at wan, syrupy swill and asking for chic, pared-down concoctions with single-origin, fair-trade beans.

Source: tatoeba (10939977)

Who doesn’t like crisp, hot, buttery-and-syrupy waffles?

Source: wiktionary

Cherry dropped into a chair and stared with lip-curling distate at the platter of sausages and their syrupy pancakes on the plates about her.

Source: wiktionary

Beth stabs her fork into a mound of syrupy waffles.

Source: wiktionary

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