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/məˈlæsɪz/ · noun
A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses..
Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.
He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.
...the mournful molasses of his prose...
‘You're the cutest thing here,’ whispered Clyde, hugging her fondly. ‘Gee, but you can pour on the molasses, kid, when you want to,’ she called out loud.
Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers.
Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony. When all days are the same, memory caves in on itself.
Use molasses when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Molasses means A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses..
Common synonyms include long sweetening, treacle, theriac, sorghum syrup.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
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