Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having the consistency and appearance of soup: Describes something that is thick, liquid, and viscous, similar to soup.
   • Effusively or insincerely emotional: Describes language, art, or behavior that is overly sentimental, emotional, or mawkish in a way that often seems exaggerated or insincere.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective (Physical Consistency): The fog was so thick and soupy that we could barely see the road ahead. After overcooking, the oatmeal became a soupy mess.

• Adjective (Emotional Quality): I find his love letters a bit too soupy and dramatic. The film's ending was criticized for being overly soupy and sentimental.

Advanced Usage

• "soupy sentimentality": Refers to an excessive, cloying level of sentimental emotion.

Variants and Related Words

• Soup (n): A liquid food, typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in stock or water.
• Soupiness (n): The quality or state of being soupy, either in physical consistency or emotional tone.

Synonyms

• For consistency: Mushy, watery, slushy, thick.
• For emotional quality: Maudlin, mawkish, bathetic, schmaltzy, slushy, sentimental, mushy.

Idioms and Phrases

• None directly formed with "soupy" as a single word. The adjective itself is often used attributively in phrases like "soupy fog" or "soupy romance."

Adjective

1. effusively or insincerely emotional
   • a bathetic novel
   • maudlin expressions of sympathy
   • mushy effusiveness
   • a schmaltzy song
   • sentimental soap operas
   • slushy poetry
2. having the consistency and appearance of soup
   • a soupy fog