drippy

Adjective

Open English WordNet

Adjective (3)drippier, drippiest

  1. wet with light rain“a sad drizzly day”“a wet drippy day”Synonyms: drizzlyOpposite drySimilar wet
  2. leaking in drops“a drippy faucet”Opposite tightSimilar leaky
  3. 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

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