Molasses

Quick meaning: Molasses is a noun meaning (US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.

Meaning

(US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
2. (figuratively) Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
3. (Scotland, obsolete) plural of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
4. (Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
5. (geology) plural of molasse
6. A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
7. (obsolete) third-person singular simple present indicative of molass

Example Sentences

...the mournful molasses of his prose.

Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.

Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers.

He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.

Word Forms

• molass
• mollasses
• molassey
• molassy
• molassos
• molossus
• molassers
• molossoes
• molossos
• molosses
• mollossus
• molossas
• molases
• moloses
• molassisis

Synonyms for molasses

Depending on context, synonyms include treacle, theriac, molass.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include treacle, syrups, syrup, sirup, blackstrap, sweetener.

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