syrupy

1. 1.

   overly sweet

   Synonymscloyingsaccharinetreacly

   Similarsweet
2. 2.

   having a relatively high resistance to flow

   Synonymsviscous

   Similarthick
3. 3.

   with honey added

   Synonymshoneyedhonied

   Similarsugary

Questions about syrupy

What does syrupy mean?

syrupy means "overly sweet". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in syrupy?

syrupy has 3 syllables: sy-ru-py. The stress falls on "sy".

What is another word for syrupy?

Close synonyms include cloying, saccharine, treacly, viscous, honeyed. 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 syrupy a common word?

syrupy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.