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slushy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of slushy

1 full of or covered with soft wet earth
  • The slushy racetrack resulted in a significantly slower time for the winning horse.
Synonyms of slushy

miry, mucky, muddy, oozy, slimy, sludgy
Words Related to slushy

clayey, loamy, silty

bedraggled

befouled, begrimed, cruddy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, gunky, impure, smutty, soiled, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
Near Antonyms of slushy

antiseptic, clean, cleanly, immaculate, pristine, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied
2 appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
  • Slushy music underscores the movie's emotional scenes.
Synonyms of slushy

cloying, corny, drippy, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
Words Related to slushy

dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed

feel-good, fuzzy

melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy

flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery

cutesy
Near Antonyms of slushy

unadulterated, unvarnished

antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded
Antonyms of slushy

unsentimental

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