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DRIPPY

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Irregular inflected forms: drippier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, drippiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (adjective) 

Comparative and superlative

Comparative: drippier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Superlative: drippiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Effusively or insincerely emotionalplay

Example:

slushy poetry

Synonyms:

bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mawkish; mushy; sappy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Derivation:

drippiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leaking in dropsplay

Example:

a drippy faucet

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

leaky (permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases)

Derivation:

drip (flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Wet with light rainplay

Example:

a wet drippy day

Synonyms:

drippy; drizzly

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

drippiness (the physical property of being soft and drippy)

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