Synonyms of soupy

soupy

adjective

ˈsü-pē 

1

as in hazy

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 & Similar Words

• hazy
• misty
• rainy
• murky
• thick
• clouded
• foggy
• milky
• smoggy
• cloudy
• smoky
• muddy
• gauzy
• slimy
• turbid
• slushy
• overcast
• beclouded
• befogged
• mucky
• brumous
• stormy
• sooty
• smudgy
• miry
• miasmatic
• dirty
• opaque
• miasmic
• miasmal
• filmy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• limpid
• cloudless
• clean
• bright
• pellucid
• sunny
• unclouded
• fair
• translucent
• transparent
• sunshiny
• clement

2

as in runny

having an overly soft liquid consistency

soupy ice cream that had been left out on the counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• runny
• thin
• watery
• wet
• thinned
• flowing
• fluent
• soggy
• fluid
• dilute
• diluted
• waterlogged
• slushy
• weak
• sloshy
• liquefied
• watered-down
• weakened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• viscous
• syrupy
• thick
• creamy
• thickened
• viscid
• ropy
• heavy
• gelatinous
• sticky
• gooey
• gummy
• glutinous
• thickish
• gluey

3

as in sentimental

appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sentimental
• sticky
• sloppy
• wet
• gooey
• mushy
• drippy
• slushy
• fuzzy
• sugary
• cloying
• saccharine
• mawkish
• schmaltzy
• maudlin
• corny
• soppy
• sappy
• chocolate-box
• sugarcoated
• spoony
• fruity
• lovey-dovey
• dreamy
• novelettish
• nostalgic
• soapy
• moony
• feel-good
• watery
• sudsy
• melodramatic
• moonstruck
• insipid
• tasteless
• vapid
• soft-boiled
• misty-eyed
• soap-operatic
• starry-eyed
• cutesy
• flat
• twee

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unsentimental
• unadulterated
• unvarnished
• cynical
• hardheaded
• hard-boiled
• hard-edged
• antisentimental

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of soupy

Take gumbo, the iconic soupy stew of New Orleanian origin born on the outskirts of European empire in the 18th century. — Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026

Very hard, small lumps or watery, soupy liquid are both cause for concern. — Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026

An order of lumacha alla vodka arrived overcooked, awash in enough spicy tomato sauce and runny cheese to give it a soupy texture. — Restaurant Critic, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026

About half of the oil from Deepwater Horizon accumulated in a soupy plume that hovered at a depth of around eleven hundred metres. — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026