/ˈsəʊpi/, /ˈsoʊpi/
OriginFrom soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).
- Resembling soap.
“Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.”
- Full of soap.
“Near-synonym: soaped up”
“The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.”
- Covered in soap.
“His skin was still soapy after the shower.”
- 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 art”
“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[.]”
- datedCommitting or involving flattery.
- An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.
Formssoapier(comparative) · soapiest(superlative) · soapies(plural)