SYRUPY


Meaning of SYRUPY in English

adjective

or sir·upy -pē, -pi

1. : resembling syrup in appearance or quality

syrupy color

coffee … thick and syrupy — Hugh MacLennan

2. : cloyingly sweet or sentimental

promptly cover the taste of defeat with syrupy new daydreams — Katharine Scherman

when a syrupy mood is on him and his wife, they spend a deplorable amount of time clutching at and kissing each other — John McCarten

especially : excessively sweet and melodious : dulcet

theater organ music, syrupy sweet — Rumer Godden

slender fingers would draw out the syrupy music from the strings — Osbert Sitwell

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.