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sappy
CIDE DICTIONARY
sappy, a. [From 1st Sap.].
- Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. [1913 Webster]"When he had passed this weak and sappy age." [1913 Webster]
- Weak in intellect. [1913 Webster]
- Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood. [1913 Webster]
sappy, a. [Cf. L. sapere to taste.].
Musty; tainted. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sappy, adj. (sappier, sappiest)
1 full of sap.
2 young and vigorous.
1 full of sap.
2 young and vigorous.
Derivative
sappily adv. sappiness n.
THESAURUS
sappy
absurd, apish, asinine, balmy, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, budding, buffoonish, callow, cloying, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dewy, dizzy, doting, drippy, dumb, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flowing, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gooey, goofy, green, growing, gulled, gushing, harebrained, idiotic, imbecile, immature, impubic, inane, inept, inexperienced, infatuated, ingenuous, innocent, insane, intact, juicy, kooky, liquid, liquidy, loony, mad, maudlin, mawkish, minor, moronic, mushy, naive, namby-pamby, new-fledged, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, preposterous, raw, ripening, romantic, runny, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sentimentalized, silly, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, sticky, stupid, succulent, tear-jerking, teary, tender, thoughtless, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, wacky, watery, wet, witlessROGET THESAURUS
sappy
Youth
N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.Folly
N imbecility folly, want of intelligence &c, want of intellect, shadowness, silliness, foolishness, imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let, stupidity, stolidity, hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness, incompetence, one's weak side, not one's strong point, bias, infatuation, simplicity, puerility, babyhood, dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity, idiocy, idiotism, driveling, folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit, sophistry, giddiness, eccentricity, extravagance, rashness, act of folly, unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning, mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless, halfbaked, having no head, not bright, inapprehensible, weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded, beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed, weak-minded, feeble-minded, dull minded, shallow minded, lack- brained, rattle-brained, rattle headed, half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle- pated, addle-brained, dim-sighted, short-sighted, thick-skulled, weak in the upper story, shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony, dull, dull as a beetle, stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish, asinine, inapt, prosaic, hebetudinous, childish, child-like, infantine, infantile, babyish, babish, puerile, anile, simple, old-womanish, fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling, blatant, babbling, vacant, sottish, bewildered, blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic, bovine, ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical, apish, simious, foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept, maudlin, narrow-minded, bigoted, giddy, rash, eccentric, foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine, ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised, mal entendu, inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical, extravagant, sleeveless, idle, pointless, useless, inexpedient, frivolous, Davus sum non, a fool's bolt is soon shot clitellae bovi sunt im, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, il n' a ni bouche ni eperon, the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound.For further exploring for "sappy" in Webster Dictionary Online