Soppy

Quick meaning: Soppy is an adjective meaning Very wet; sodden, soaked.

Meaning

Very wet; sodden, soaked.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.

Example Sentences

Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.

'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'

Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.

"[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."

Word Forms

• soppier
• soppiest

Synonyms for soppy

Depending on context, synonyms include drenched, soggy, waterlogged, bewatered, damp, dripping.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sodden, sopping, drenched, soaked, wet, soaking.

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