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soupy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of soupy

1 filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension

  • the soupy skies over the island make a nighttime landing a very risky business
Synonyms of soupy

beclouded, befogged, brumous, clouded, cloudy, foggy, gauzy, hazy, misty, murky, smoggy
Words Related to soupy

overcast, rainy, stormy, thick

dirty, miry, mucky, muddy, slimy, slushy, turbid

miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic

smoky (also smokey), smudgy, sooty

filmy, milky, opaque
Near Antonyms of soupy

bright, clean

clement, fair, sunny, sunshiny

translucent, transparent
Antonyms of soupy

clear, cloudless, limpid, pellucid, unclouded

2 having an overly soft liquid consistency

  • soupy ice cream that had been left out on the counter
Synonyms of soupy

runny, watery
Words Related to soupy

flowing, fluent, fluid, liquefied

dilute, diluted, thin, thinned, watered-down, weak, weakened

sloshy, slushy, soggy, waterlogged, wet
Near Antonyms of soupy

ropy (also ropey), syrupy, viscid, viscous

creamy, heavy, thick, thickened, thickish

gelatinous, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, sticky

3 appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way

  • once starred as the virginal ingenue in a string of soupy operettas
Synonyms of soupy

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

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 of soupy

unadulterated, unvarnished

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

unsentimental

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