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sugary

  • /ˈʃʊɡəɹi/ Australia, US, UK
  • /ˈʃʉɡəɾe/ Scotland
  • /ˈʃʉɡəɹe/ Northern Ireland

adjective sugarier · sugariest

  1. Of food, drink, etc., containing or covered with a large amount of sugar. By always having water on hand, you’ll be more likely to skip soda or other sugary beverages, which saves you a ton of calories.

    Similar: sugared

  2. derogatory, figuratively Exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion. Whenever young lovers tied the knot, some wedding guest would inevitably beseech the reception band to play the sugary strains of this song.
  3. dated Fond of sweets.

noun sugaries

  1. A place where maple-juice is manufactured.
  2. A place where sugar is manufactured.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sugared, candied, syrupy, sugar-coated, sweetened, sweet, honeyed, honeylike, honied, granulated, crystallized, oversugary, saccharine, sugarful, oversugared, hypersaccharine

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adj covered with or containing a large amount of sugar

Españoldulce
日本語甘い amai
हिन्दीमीठा mīṭhā
Portuguêsaçucarado
Françaismielleux
Deutschgezuckert, zuckerhaltig
Italianozuccherino, zuccheroso, mellifluo, sdolcinato, mieloso, zuccherifero
Românămieros
Русскийсла́дкий sládkij

adj excessively sweet

Deutschzuckrig, süßlich, übersüßt

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@misc{sugary_2026,
  title = {sugary},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sugary},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}