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say it: SAH-pee
soppy is an adjective meaning "wet through and through; thoroughly wet". It is pronounced /ˈsɑpi/ — SAH-pee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
effusively or insincerely emotional
“a bathetic novel”
“maudlin expressions of sympathy”
“mushy effusiveness”
“a schmaltzy song”
“sentimental soap operas”
“slushy poetry”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soppy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.