soupy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having a thick, wet, or fluid consistency like soup

   Heavy rain turned the unpaved road into a soupy layer of mud.

2. 2
   adj

   excessively or insincerely sentimental

   The film's soupy ending weakened an otherwise restrained drama.

From soup + the adjective-forming suffix -y. The physical sense describes a soup-like consistency; the figurative sentimental sense parallels words such as syrupy and saccharine.

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