drippy
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (3)drippier, drippiest
- wet with light rain“a sad drizzly day”“a wet drippy day”Synonyms: drizzlyOpposite drySimilar wet
- leaking in drops“a drippy faucet”Opposite tightSimilar leaky
- effusively or insincerely emotional“a bathetic novel”“maudlin expressions of sympathy”“mushy effusiveness”“a schmaltzy song”“sentimental soap operas”“slushy poetry”Synonyms: bathetichokeymaudlinmawkishkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysentimentalsappysoppysoupyslushyOpposite unemotionalSimilar emotional
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
drippy adjective
persistently dripping even when shut; as, a drippy faucet.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5