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drippy

also drippier, drippiest
adjective
Quick answer

As an adjective, drippy means dripping or tending to drip.

Meanings of drippy

8 meanings

adjective

  1. Dripping or tending to drip.

  2. informalRainy.

  3. informalMaudlin; sentimental.

  4. informalTiresome; annoying.

  5. slangExtravagant, luxurious.

  6. Wet with light rain

    “a sad drizzly day”

    “a wet drippy day”

    Similar: drizzly

  7. Leaking in drops

    “a drippy faucet”

  8. Effusively or insincerely emotional

    “a bathetic novel”

    “maudlin expressions of sympathy”

    “mushy effusiveness”

    Similar: bathetic, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for drippy →
adjective: wet with light rain
drizzly
adjective: effusively or insincerely emotional
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