The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SAPPY which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Overly sentimental crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPPY | 46 % | 5 |
| ICKY | 11 % | 4 |
| MUSHY | 8 % | 5 |
| SYRUPY | 6 % | 6 |
| GOOEY | 6 % | 5 |
| SOUPY | 6 % | 5 |
| DRIPPY | 5 % | 6 |
| SOPPY | 3 % | 5 |
| GUSHY | 2 % | 5 |
| MAUDLIN | 2 % | 7 |
| SACCHARINE | 2 % | 10 |
| SLUSHY | 2 % | 6 |
| WEEPY | 2 % | 5 |
| TREACLY | 2 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Overly sentimental
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- maudlin
- schmaltzy
- mushy
- soppy
- capitalize
- volta
- sentimental
- sentimentality
- sentimentalism
- delores
- bioactive
- afloat
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPPY adjective- Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
- Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
- Juicy.
- (of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
- Musty; tainted; rancid.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SAPPY
- Too sentimental
- Empty-headed
- Way sentimental
- Foolishly sentimental
- Mawkish
- Overly sentimental
- Like chick flicks, stereotypically
- Patently sentimental
- Maudlin
- Like silly fools or maple trees
More clues leading to the result ICKY
- Repulsive
- Too sweet, so to speak
- A bit nasty
- Nasty
- Gross, to children
- Distasteful
- Like worms, to many
- Revolting
- Gooey
- Gummy
More clues leading to the result MUSHY
- Schmaltzy
- Mawkishly amorous
- Like banana pudding
- Romantic, to kids
- Overly sentimental
- Like a tearjerker
- Like some love letters
- Beyond romantic
- Oozing schmaltz
- Overly emotional
More clues leading to the result SYRUPY
- Cloyingly sweet
- Like treacle
- Overly sentimental
- Cloying
- Overdone
- Like molasses
- Overly sweet
- Overly sentimental.
- Viscous.
- Oversentimental
More clues leading to the result GOOEY
- Like a s'more
- Like some chocolate-chip cookies
- Viscid
- Like molasses
- Like roasted marshmallows
- Like hot tar
- Sticky
- Overly sentimental
- Like fudge
- Like honey
More clues leading to the result SOUPY
- Sales
- Densely foggy
- Sentimental
- Like heavy fog
- Overly sentimental
- Foglike
- ___ Sales
- Like London fog
- Sales of comedy
- Like thick fog
More clues leading to the result DRIPPY
More clues leading to the result SOPPY
More clues leading to the result GUSHY
- Excessively effusive
- Effusive
- Overly sentimental
- Overly emotional
- Sentimental.
- Effusive.
- Sentimental
- Not reserved
- Overly flattering
- Overly effusive
More clues leading to the result MAUDLIN
- Schmaltzy
- Foolishly sentimental
- Mawkish
- Sentimental
- Sadly sentimental
- Tearjerking
- Effusively sentimental.
- Mawkish.
- Overly sentimental
- Tearfully emotional
More clues leading to the result SACCHARINE
More clues leading to the result SLUSHY
- Soft, wet, and cold
- Messy to walk in
- Like some wintry road conditions
- Like mixed precipitation
- Half-melted, as snow
- Like many ski slopes in April
- Like partly melted snow
- Overly sentimental
- Like half-melted snow
- Tritely sentimental
More clues leading to the result WEEPY
- Tearful
- Full of tears
- Teary-eyed
- Lachrymose
- Obviously sad
- Reacting to a tearjerker
- Sobbing
- Sentimental, maybe
- In a tearful state.
- Verging on tears.