soapy

Literal senses:

Adjective

  1. Literal senses:
    • Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.

    Synonyms: soaplike

    1. Resembling soap.

    2. Full of soap.

      • Near-synonym: soaped up
      • The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.

      Synonyms: soaped up

    3. Covered in soap.

      • His skin was still soapy after the shower.

      Synonyms: soaped up

  2. 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 artifice is built into...
    • 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[.] - 2023 November 16, Lucy...

    Synonyms: soaplike

  3. Committing or involving flattery.

    Coordinate Terms: oily

Origin

From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

Forms

soapier soapiest

Derived

nonsoapy soapily soapiness unsoapy

Noun

  1. An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.

Forms

soapies