Adjacent Words

drippy definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" [syn: drippy, drizzly]
2: leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet"
3: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (drippier; -est) Date: circa 1718 1. characterized by dripping; especially rainy, drizzly 2. mawkish 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (drippier, drippiest) 1 tending to drip. 2 sl. (of a person) ineffectual; sloppily sentimental. Derivatives: drippily adv. drippiness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as drippy, you mean that they are rather stupid and weak. If you describe something such as a book or a type of music as drippy, you mean that you think it is rather stupid, dull, and sentimental. (INFORMAL) These men look a bit drippy. ...drippy infantile ideas. = wet ADJ [disapproval]