soapy
/ˈsəʊpi/US/ˈsoʊpi/
soapy adjective: resembling soap.
Adjective
soapy (comparative soapier, superlative soapiest)
- Resembling soap.
- Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.
- Synonyms:
- soaplike
- Full of soap.
- Near-synonym: soaped up
- The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.
- Synonyms:
- soaped up
- Covered in soap.
- His skin was still soapy after the shower.
- Synonyms:
- soaped up
- Resembling a soap opera.
- The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club
- This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]2023 November 16, Lucy Mangan, “The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- soaplike
- Committing or involving flattery.
Noun
soapy (plural soapies)
- An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.
soapy meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
soapy in Tamil
- சவர்க்காரம் போன்ற, சவர்க்காரம் பூசப்பட்ட, சவர்க்காரம் ஊறிய, சவர்க்காரத்தின் இயல்புடைய, பிசுக்குள்ள, வழவழப்பான
soapy in Bengali
- সাবানযুক্ত, পিচ্ছিল
soapy in Malayalam
- സോപ്പുപോലെയുള്ള, സോപ്പടങ്ങിയ, സോപ്പുപതയാൽ മൂടിയ, വ്യാജസ്തുതിക്കൽ, വഴുവഴുപ്പായ
Examples of soapy in a sentence
- YouTuber Chris Fix keeps a spray bottle of soapy wooder handy while he is repairing and cleaning cars.
- But now I could recognise it at once - soapy, mentholy, a little sweaty, musky, turpsy.
- Some soapy water and a little elbow grease and we'll have the Glam Van clean in no time.
Synonyms of soapy
Forms of soapy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | soapier |
| superlative | soapiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | soapies |
Origin of soapy
From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).
Words formed from soapy
Words that rhyme with soapy
Questions about soapy
- What does soapy mean?
- Soapy means resembling soap.
- What is soapy in Tamil?
- Soapy in Tamil is சவர்க்காரம் போன்ற, சவர்க்காரம் பூசப்பட்ட, சவர்க்காரம் ஊறிய. See Soapy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is soapy?
- Soapy can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce soapy?
- Soapy is pronounced /ˈsəʊpi/ (UK).
Words near soapy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: soapy (page history and authors); soapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soapy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soapy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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