sappy

Other forms of sappy

comparative or superlative

sappier

comparative or superlative

sappiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sappy

What does sappy mean?

sappy means "abounding in sap". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sappy?

sappy has 2 syllables: sap-py. The stress falls on "sap".

What is another word for sappy?

Close synonyms include bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sappy a common word?

sappy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.