drippy

Thân thiện

A child watches a drippy faucet in the kitchen.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Excessively sentimental or emotional in a weak, insincere, or silly way: Describes something that is overly emotional in a manner that seems foolish, exaggerated, or lacking in genuine feeling.
   • Leaking in drops; characterized by dripping: Describes something that is wet from or characterized by a slow, drop-by-drop flow of liquid.
   • Damp and drizzly; characterized by light rain: Describes weather that is wet with a fine, misty rain.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Sentimental):
  • I can't stand those drippy love songs on the radio.
  • The movie's ending was so drippy that it felt manipulative.
• Adjective (Leaking):
  • We need to fix that drippy faucet in the kitchen.
  • He held a drippy ice cream cone over the sink.
• Adjective (Weather):
  • It's another cold, drippy November day.
  • We postponed the picnic due to the drippy weather.

Advanced Usage

• Used informally and often critically: The "sentimental" sense is frequently used in a disapproving or mocking tone to criticize art, writing, or behavior perceived as cloyingly emotional.
  • Her drippy poetry was full of clichés about lost love.
• Describing a person's demeanor: Can describe a person who is overly sentimental or mawkish.
  • He gets all drippy when he talks about his childhood dog.

Variants and Related Words

• Drip (noun/verb): The act or sound of falling in drops; to fall in drops.
  • The steady drip of water kept me awake.
• Dripping (adjective/adverb/noun): Extremely wet; the fat that drips from meat during cooking.
  • He came in from the storm, dripping wet.

Synonyms

• For "sentimental": Maudlin, mawkish, bathetic, mushy, schmaltzy, slushy, soppy.
• For "leaking": Leaky, trickling, dripping.
• For "drizzly": Drizzly, damp, misty, wet.

Related Phrases

• Drip with sentiment/sentimentality: To be overflowing with excessive emotion.
  • The speech dripped with sentimentality, making some audience members cringe.

Related Idioms

• A drip: (Informal, noun) A boring, weak, or annoying person. (Note: This is a related but distinct term from the adjective "drippy.")
  • Don't invite him; he's such a drip.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. effusively or insincerely emotional
   • a bathetic novel
   • maudlin expressions of sympathy
   • mushy effusiveness
   • a schmaltzy song
   • sentimental soap operas
   • slushy poetry
2. leaking in drops
   • a drippy faucet
3. wet with light rain
   • a sad drizzly day
   • a wet drippy day

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• drizzly