gooier

Adjective

gooey (comparative gooeyer or gooier, superlative gooeyest or gooiest)

1. (informal) Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.
   • gooey liquid covered the floor

   Synonyms:

   goolike, ooey-gooey, oozy

2. (figuratively, informal) Emotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent; mushy, soppy.
   • What flower has been bred in more than three thousand varieties, and become the symbol of the gooeyest human sentimentality and pampering?1956 April, H[omer] Nearing, Jr., “The Neurotic Rose”, in Leo Margulies, editor, Fantastic Universe, volume 5, number 3, New York, N.Y.: King-Size Publications, →OCLC, page 87

   Synonyms:

   maudlin, mawkish, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, hokey, icky

   Antonyms:

   unemotional, unsentimental

3. (archaic, figuratively, informal) Distasteful, unpleasant.
   • Mr. Hugh Dillman's Palm Beach divorce suit will be gooey, Three of his golf-playing ???? will be mentioned …1938 November 15, Walter Winchell, “On Broadway”, in Harold W. Sanford, editor, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 3

   Synonyms:

   abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid, vile, demonic

   Antonyms:

   acceptable, agreeable, amiable, charming, comely, nice, pleasant, pleasing, welcome

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