sappy

sap·py

adjective \ˈsa-pē\

sap·pi·ersap·pi·est

Definition of SAPPY

1

: abounding with sap

2

: resembling or consisting largely of sapwood

3

a : overly sweet or sentimental

b : lacking in good sense : silly

Examples of SAPPY

1. She gets all sappy when she is around babies.
2. <a sappy letter filled with silly romantic clichés>

First Known Use of SAPPY

12th century

Related to SAPPY

Synonyms

chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, corny, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet

Antonyms

unsentimental

Related Words

dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed; feel-good, fuzzy; melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy; flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery; cutesy, twee [chiefly British]

Near Antonyms

unadulterated, unvarnished; antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded

Other Botany Terms

annual, burgeon, chloroplast, nomenclature, succulent, sylvan, xylem

Rhymes with SAPPY

crappy, flappy, gappy, happy, nappy, pappy, scrappy, snappy, strappy, zappy