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(sɒpi)
Word forms: comparative soppier, superlative soppiest
adjective
If you describe someone or something as soppy, you mean that they are foolishly sentimental.
[British, informal]
He's constantly on the phone to his girlfriend being soppy.
She loves soppy love stories, old films, that sort of thing.
Synonyms: sentimental, corny [slang], slushy [informal], soft [informal] More Synonyms of soppy

soppy in British English

(ˈsɒpɪ)
adjectiveWord forms: -pier or -piest
1. 
wet or soggy
2.  British informal
silly or sentimental
Derived forms
soppily (ˈsoppily)
adverb
soppiness (ˈsoppiness)
noun

soppy in American English

(ˈsɑpi)
adjectiveWord forms: ˈsoppier or ˈsoppiest
1. 
very wet; sopping
2. 
rainy
3.  Informal
sentimental

Examples of 'soppy' in a sentence
soppy

Listen to a really soppy song and have a good cry.
Vera Peiffer POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but wereafraid to put into practice (2001)
Some scorn those who get soppy about horses.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is a soppy and sentimental royal anthem that offers no opportunity for expressing pride in our nation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The ballad is soppy but a surefire No1.
The Sun (2012)
It was no longer all about soppy three-minute love songs.
The Sun (2014)
But it's also the source of his most soppy and brilliant songs.
The Sun (2014)
That's not just the view of a soppy old liberal.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

In other languages
soppy

British English: soppy /ˈsɒpɪ/ ADJECTIVE
If you describe someone or something as soppy, you mean that they are foolishly sentimental.
...a soppy love ballad.
  • American English: schmaltzy
  • Arabic: عَاطِفِيّ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: piegas
  • Chinese: 多愁善感的
  • Croatian: sentimentalan
  • Czech: sladký pošetile sentimentální
  • Danish: drivende sentimental
  • Dutch: sentimenteel
  • European Spanish: sensiblero
  • Finnish: siirappinen
  • French: mélo
  • German: rührselig
  • Greek: σαχλός
  • Italian: svenevole
  • Japanese: いやにセンチメンタルな
  • Korean: 감상적인
  • Norwegian: søkkvåt
  • Polish: ckliwy
  • European Portuguese: piegas
  • Romanian: siropos
  • Russian: слезливый
  • Latin American Spanish: sentimentaloide
  • Swedish: sentimental
  • Thai: มีอารมณ์อ่อนไหวมากเกินไป
  • Turkish: aşırı duygusal
  • Ukrainian: сентиментальний
  • Vietnamese: ủy mị

(adjective) 
Definition
foolishly sentimental
(British, informal) 
She loves soppy love stories.
Synonyms
sentimental
It's a very sentimental play.
corny (slang)
a corny old love song
slushy (informal)
soft (informal)
silly
daft (informal)
weepy (informal)
mawkish
a sentimental plot with an inevitable mawkish ending
drippy (informal)
lovey-dovey
schmaltzy (slang)
A schmaltzy weep-along if ever there was one!
icky (informal)
gushy (informal)
overemotional
three-hankie (informal)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of corny
Definition
unoriginal or oversentimental
a corny old love song
Synonyms
sentimental,
cheesy (informal),
mushy (informal),
maudlin,
slushy (informal),
mawkish,
schmaltzy (slang)
in the sense of gushy
Synonyms
effusive,
emotional,
excessive,
over the top,
sentimental,
gushing,
overdone,
fulsome,
cloying,
mawkish,
icky (informal),
overenthusiastic
in the sense of mawkish
Definition
foolishly or embarrassingly sentimental
a sentimental plot with an inevitable mawkish ending
Synonyms
sentimental,
emotional,
feeble,
mushy (informal),
soppy (British, informal),
maudlin,
slushy (informal),
schmaltzy (slang),
icky (informal),
gushy (informal),
three-hankie (informal)

Nearby words of
soppy

  • sophistication
  • sophistry
  • soporific
  • soppy
  • sorcerer
  • sorcery
  • sordid

Synonyms of 'soppy'

soppy

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of schmaltzy
A schmaltzy weep-along if ever there was one!
Synonyms
sentimental,
sloppy (informal),
corny (slang),
cheesy (informal),
mushy (informal),
soppy (informal),
gooey (informal),
cloying,
maudlin,
slushy (informal),
mawkish,
tear-jerking,
icky (informal),
bathetic,
overemotional
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