soapy — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Literal senses: Resembling soap.

   Synonyms

   soaplike

   Examples

   Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.

2. Literal senses: Full of soap.

   Synonyms

   soaped up

   Examples

   Near-synonym: soaped up

   The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.

3. Literal senses: Covered in soap.

   Synonyms

   soaped up

   Examples

   His skin was still soapy after the shower.

4. Resembling a soap opera.

   Synonyms

   soaplike

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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 the format.

   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[.]

5. Committing or involving flattery.

   Usage

   • Dated

Noun

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

Adjective

1. resembling or having the qualities of soap

   Synonyms

   saponaceous

   Examples

   a soapy consistency

2. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

   Synonyms

   butteryfulsomeoilyoleaginoussmarmyunctuous

   Examples

   buttery praise

   gave him a fulsome introduction

   More examples (5)

   an oily sycophantic press agent

   oleaginous hypocrisy

   smarmy self-importance

   the unctuous Uriah Heep

   soapy compliments