treacly

1. 1.

   overly sweet

   Synonymscloyingsaccharinesyrupy

   Similarsweet

Questions about treacly

What does treacly mean?

treacly means "overly sweet".

How many syllables are in treacly?

treacly has 3 syllables: tre-a-cly. The stress falls on "tre".

What is another word for treacly?

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

treacly 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.