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syrupy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective syrupy has 3 senses
- syrupy(s = adj.all) cloying, saccharine, treacly - overly sweet; Array
- syrupy(s = adj.all) viscous - having a relatively high resistance to flow; Array
- syrupy(s = adj.all) honeyed, honied - with honey added; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
syrupy, a.
Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
syrupy
adhesive, ambrosial, amylaceous, bittersweet, candied, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, drippy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, honeyed, honeysweet, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maudlin, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, moist, mucilaginous, mushy, nectareous, nectarous, pasty, ropy, sacchariferous, sappy, slabby, slimy, slithery, slushy, sour-sweet, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweetened, sweetish, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous
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