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Definition: Sugary |
SugaryAdjective1. Containing sugar; "he eats too much sugary food". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sugary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Antonym: sugarless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sugary |
| English words defined with "sugary": Citron melon ♦ Dambonite ♦ manna ♦ sugarplum ♦ To be sweet on. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sugary": banded quartz-hematite ore. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth (City of Angels; writing credit: Wim Wenders; Peter Handke) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Feeling blue?" by Noie Shives Commentary: "Just some blue sugary beverage, probably fearing for its life as I went to drink it. :)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid sticky, sugary foods. (references) | |
Stay away from sugary snacks because they can promote tooth decay. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sugary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Sugary" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.74% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sugary": sugary voice. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sugary | 6 |
sugary sweet.com | 2 |
sugary sweet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sugary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si sheqer, me sheqer (saccharine), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, soft, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Arabic | متبلر, معسول (candied), مبرغل, حلو (honey, lovely, nice, sensational, silky, sweet), سكري (drunken, saccharine), رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сладникав (mawkish, saccharine, sickly, sweetish, syrupy, treacly), захарен (saccharic, saccharine, sugar), прекалено сладък (luscious), прекалено любезен (ingratiating). (various references) | |
Chinese | 含糖. (various references) | |
Czech | sladký (fresh, sweet), lichotivý (complimentary, flattering, oily), cukrový. (various references) | |
Danish | ujaevnt snit (sugary cut), ruflet snit (sugary cut), punkteret snit (sugary cut). (various references) | |
Dutch | poeslief (bland). (various references) | |
Esperanto | afekte milda (bland). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملیح (Melodious), قندی , قنددار, شیرین زبان (Mealymouthed), شیرین (Amiable, Luscious, Soft, Sweet), شکری . (various references) | |
Finnish | sokerimainen (saccharine). (various references) | |
French | doucereux (suave). (various references) | |
German | zuckerig, süß (cute, gentle, soft, sweet, sweetly, tender). (various references) | |
Greek | σακχαρώδησ (saccharine), ζαχαρώδησ (glace), ζαχαρένιοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתקתק (saccharin, saccharine, sweetish, treacly), סוכרי (saccharin, saccharine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cukros (gooey), édeskés (bland, fulsome, luscious, mawkish, namby-pamby, silky, sweetish, treacly, unctuous). (various references) | |
Italian | sdolcinato (affected, gushing, mawkish, namby-pamby, oversentimental, pretty-pretty, slobbery, sloppy, smooth), zuccherino (lolly, saccharated, sweet), mellifluo (honeyed, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, nectariferous, sleek, smooth, suave). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 甘味 (sugary taste, sweetness), 甘み (sugary taste, sweetness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんみ (saltiness, sugary taste, sweetness), あまみ (sugary taste, sweetness). (various references) | |
Manx | shugyragh (sacchariferous), millish (balmy, darling, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, luscious, sweet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugarysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | muito doce, lisonjeiro (candied, courtly, fawning, flattering, glib, slick, smooth, wheedling), doce (bland, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeyed, junket, kiss, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, nicy, polite, soft, sugar, sweet, tender), de modos melífluos, adulador (adulatory, creeping, fawning, flatterer, flunkey, groveller, lackey, lacquey, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, smarmy, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, truckler, tuft-hunter, unctuous), adocicado (luscious, mellow), açucarado (luscious). (various references) | |
Romanian | mieros (cajoling, greasy, honeyed, ingratiating, oilily, oily, silky, sleek, smooth, smooth-faced, soapy, unctuous), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), cu zahãr, îndulcit. (various references) | |
Russian | сахаристый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šećerni (sugar), šećeran. (various references) | |
Spanish | azucarado (candied, sugar coated, sugared, sweet). (various references) | |
Swedish | sockrig struktur (sugary grained), råslipning (sugary cut), grovslipning (sugary cut). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งใส่น้ำตาล. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapmacık tatlı, yüze gülücü (honeyed, honied, plausible, sleek, smooth-faced), tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), şekerli (saccharine, sugared, sweetened, with sugar), şeker gibi. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sьяji (candy, fresh water, sweet), gantly. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | солодкуватий (namby-pamby, sweetish), цукровий (saccharine), цукристий (sacchariferous, saccharine). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có đường, đường mật (treacly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sugary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asgarby, Ashgari, Hugary, Mugeary, sagara, Sagatrieb, Segar, Segarra, Shuaghra, shugar, Shugart, siegery, sigar, Sigiriya, suga, sugara, sugarey, sugarz, sugery, suggary, sumari, sumary, Supadriv, Zegarra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sugary" (pronounced shuh"gerē) |
| 3 | -g er ē | demagoguery, thuggery, vagary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: argus, gaurs, grays, guars, gyrus, saury, sugar, surgy, yugas. | |
-2 letters: gars, gaur, gays, gray, guar, guys, rags, rays, ruga, rugs, ryas, sagy, sura, ursa, yuga. | |
-3 letters: ars, ays, gar, gas, gay, guy, rag, ras, ray, rug, rya, sag, sau, say, yar. | |
-4 letters: ag, ar, as, ay, us, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: grayouts. | |
+3 letters: autogyros, bullyrags, gustatory, strangury, surrogacy, voyageurs. | |
+4 letters: bodyguards, gesturally, glycosuria, graciously, guayaberas, gynandrous, quarryings, sanguinary, singularly, sluggardly, sugarberry, surgically. | |
+5 letters: androgynous, dangerously, garrulously, glamorously, glycosurias, gustatorily, playgrounds, singularity, subcategory, superagency, throughways, unsparingly, vagariously, yarboroughs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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