Sirupy \Sir"up*y\, Syrupy \Syr"up*y\, a.
Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. --Mortimer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Syrup \Syr"up\, n., Syrupy \Syr"up*y\, a. [See Sirup.]
Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
syrupy
adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, treacly]
2: having a relatively high resistance to flow [syn: viscous]
3: with honey added [syn: honeyed, honied]
WordNet (r) 2.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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