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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the consistency and appearance of soup; "a soupy fog"
2: 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 (soupier; -est) Date: 1869 1. having the consistency of soup 2. densely foggy or cloudy 3. overly sentimental

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (soupier, soupiest) 1 of or resembling soup. 2 colloq. sentimental; mawkish. Derivatives: soupily adv. soupiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Soupy Soup"y, a. Resembling soup; souplike.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Soupy things are like soup or look like soup. ...swirling soupy water... ADJ