gooey

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: goo=ey

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gooey, adj. (gooier, gooiest) sl.
1 viscous, sticky.
2 sickly, sentimental.

Derivative

gooeyness n. (also gooiness).

Etymology

GOO + -Y(2)

THESAURUS

gooey

adhesive, amylaceous, bathetic, beery, clabbered, clammy, clotted, cloying, coagulated, curdled, doughy, drippy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maudlin, mawkish, mucilaginous, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pasty, romantic, ropy, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unctuous, viscid, viscose, viscous

ROGET THESAURUS

gooey

Semiliquidity

N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.