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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. wet through and through; thoroughly wet;
- Example: "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"
- Example: "the speaker's sodden collar"
- Example: "soppy clothes"
[syn: sodden, soppy]
2. effusively or insincerely emotional;
- Example: "a bathetic novel"
- Example: "maudlin expressions of sympathy"
- Example: "mushy effusiveness"
- Example: "a schmaltzy song"
- Example: "sentimental soap operas"
- Example: "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soppy \Sop"py\, a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. [1913 Webster] It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
