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soppier

soppier is the comparative form of soppy.

Meaning of soppy

Adjective

soppy (comparative soppier, superlative soppiest)

  1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.
    • Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
  2. (figuratively, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
    • Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.

Questions about soppier

What is soppier the comparative form of?
Soppier is the comparative form of soppy.

Words near soppier in the dictionary

  1. sopped
  2. sopped up
  3. sopper
  4. soppers
  5. soppes
  6. soppier
  7. soppiest
  8. soppily
  9. soppiness
  10. sopping
  11. sopping up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soppier (page history and authors); soppy (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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