Gooey
adjective
Something that is soft, sticky, and often feels wet.
The chocolate cake was still warm and gooey in the middle.
Often appears as...
- gooey chocolate
- gooey marshmallow
adjective
Describing over-emotional sentimentality, often in a exaggerated or artificial way.
He hated the gooey love scenes in the movie.
Often appears as...
- gooey romance
- gooey sentiment
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Something that is soft, sticky, and often feels wet.
The chocolate cake was still warm and gooey in the middle.
Often appears as...
- gooey chocolate
- gooey marshmallow
adjective
Describing over-emotional sentimentality, often in a exaggerated or artificial way.
He hated the gooey love scenes in the movie.
Often appears as...
- gooey romance
- gooey sentiment
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gooey' to describe a texture that is pleasantly sticky and often enjoyable to eat.
The brownie’s gooey center made every bite delicious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative or Positive
'Gooey' can imply something is deliciously sticky or unpleasantly messy, depending on context.
Her hands were covered in gooey sap after touching the tree.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
'Gooey' is informal and best used in casual conversations or writing, not in formal contexts.
I can't wait to sink my teeth into a gooey, cheesy pizza!
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gooey' to describe a texture that is pleasantly sticky and often enjoyable to eat.
The brownie’s gooey center made every bite delicious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative or Positive
'Gooey' can imply something is deliciously sticky or unpleasantly messy, depending on context.
Her hands were covered in gooey sap after touching the tree.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
'Gooey' is informal and best used in casual conversations or writing, not in formal contexts.
I can't wait to sink my teeth into a gooey, cheesy pizza!
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gooey' to describe a texture that is pleasantly sticky and often enjoyable to eat.
The brownie’s gooey center made every bite delicious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative or Positive
'Gooey' can imply something is deliciously sticky or unpleasantly messy, depending on context.
Her hands were covered in gooey sap after touching the tree.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
'Gooey' is informal and best used in casual conversations or writing, not in formal contexts.
I can't wait to sink my teeth into a gooey, cheesy pizza!
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Video examples
From DNA to Silly Putty,...
attempted to create one but ended up with a gooey, soft putty. It wasn't a good rubber substitute, but it did have one strange it appeared to be extremely bouncy. Silly Putty was born! Synthetic polymers have changed the world. Think about it. Could you imagine getting through a single day
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Mina Bissell:...
maybe it tells the cells what to do, maybe it tells the nucleus what to do. So I said, extracellular matrix, which is this stuff called ECM, signals and actually tells the cells what to do. So, we decided to make things that would look like that. We found some gooey material
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Experiments that point...
three-dimensional gooey gel that has extracellular matrix it makes all these beautiful structure on the right you see it looks very ugly the cells continue to grow the normal ones stop and you see here in higher magnification the normal asanas and the ugly tumor so we said
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Life Beyond Earth, Part...
and they were gooey. And we took samples of them and lo and behold they had many microorganisms in them. Since this initial effort, we found them in many different caves around the world. And they often contain structures that look like this.
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How to see with sound -...
First, the skin is covered with conductive gel. Since sound waves lose speed and clarity when traveling through air, this gooey substance ensures an airtight seal between the body and the wand emitting ultrasound waves.
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What it's really like to...
which means I never crank up my music really loud and I usually am not a fan of large parties. But other people on the spectrum might get overwhelmed with things like bright lights or strong smells or gooey textures
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My year of saying yes to...
All that exists are sticky fingers and gooey kisses and tiny voices and crayons and that song about letting go of whatever it is that Frozen girl needs to let go of. It's all peace and simplicity.
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Nationalism vs....
think that the nation is a biological entity. It's made of the combination of soil and blood, creates the nation. But this is just a fictional story. Soil and blood kind of makes a gooey mess.
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Karen Armstrong: Let's...
I'd like youth to get a sense of the dynamism, the dynamic and challenge of a compassionate lifestyle. And also see that it demands acute intelligence, not just a gooey feeling.
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How sugar affects the...
Picture warm, gooey cookies, crunchy candies, velvety cakes, waffle cones piled high with ice cream. Is your mouth watering? Are you craving dessert? Why?
Video examples
From DNA to Silly Putty,...
attempted to create one but ended up with a gooey, soft putty. It wasn't a good rubber substitute, but it did have one strange it appeared to be extremely bouncy. Silly Putty was born! Synthetic polymers have changed the world. Think about it. Could you imagine getting through a single day
Video examples
Mina Bissell:...
maybe it tells the cells what to do, maybe it tells the nucleus what to do. So I said, extracellular matrix, which is this stuff called ECM, signals and actually tells the cells what to do. So, we decided to make things that would look like that. We found some gooey material
Video examples
Experiments that point...
three-dimensional gooey gel that has extracellular matrix it makes all these beautiful structure on the right you see it looks very ugly the cells continue to grow the normal ones stop and you see here in higher magnification the normal asanas and the ugly tumor so we said
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Life Beyond Earth, Part...
and they were gooey. And we took samples of them and lo and behold they had many microorganisms in them. Since this initial effort, we found them in many different caves around the world. And they often contain structures that look like this.
Video examples
How to see with sound -...
First, the skin is covered with conductive gel. Since sound waves lose speed and clarity when traveling through air, this gooey substance ensures an airtight seal between the body and the wand emitting ultrasound waves.
Video examples
What it's really like to...
which means I never crank up my music really loud and I usually am not a fan of large parties. But other people on the spectrum might get overwhelmed with things like bright lights or strong smells or gooey textures
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My year of saying yes to...
All that exists are sticky fingers and gooey kisses and tiny voices and crayons and that song about letting go of whatever it is that Frozen girl needs to let go of. It's all peace and simplicity.
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
think that the nation is a biological entity. It's made of the combination of soil and blood, creates the nation. But this is just a fictional story. Soil and blood kind of makes a gooey mess.
Video examples
Karen Armstrong: Let's...
I'd like youth to get a sense of the dynamism, the dynamic and challenge of a compassionate lifestyle. And also see that it demands acute intelligence, not just a gooey feeling.
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
Picture warm, gooey cookies, crunchy candies, velvety cakes, waffle cones piled high with ice cream. Is your mouth watering? Are you craving dessert? Why?
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Quote examples
Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.
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Bo Burnham
American Comedian
I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.
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Gillian Armstrong
Australian Director
Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.
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Robert Greene
English Playwright
I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.
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Melanie Martinez
American Musician
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.
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Ron Ben-Israel
Israeli Chef
I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.
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Fawad Khan
Pakistani Actor
It's a great feeling to be admired... what can I say? It's a warm, gooey feeling.
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Trisha Yearwood
American Musician
I like a gooey cookie.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.
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Bo Burnham
American Comedian
I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.
Quote examples
Gillian Armstrong
Australian Director
Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.
Quote examples
Robert Greene
English Playwright
I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.
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Melanie Martinez
American Musician
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.
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Ron Ben-Israel
Israeli Chef
I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.
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Fawad Khan
Pakistani Actor
It's a great feeling to be admired... what can I say? It's a warm, gooey feeling.
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Trisha Yearwood
American Musician
I like a gooey cookie.
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