Need another word that means the same as “dripping”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “dripping” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dripping” are: drip, drippage, fat, oil, cooking oil, animal fat, soft and wet, mushy, squashy, pulpy, slushy, sloppy, squishy, oozy, doughy, soaking, sopping
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dripping” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| animal fat | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| cooking oil | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. |
| drip | A method of brewing coffee by dripping boiling water through a filter filled with ground coffee beans. We both drink aged Sumatra drip coffee. |
| drippage | A liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house. |
| fat | The presence of excess fat in a person or animal. He was a tall man running to fat. |
| oil | Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist. 400 birds were coated with oil which spilled out from an opened valve. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dripping” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| doughy | (of a person) pale and rather fat. A pasty doughy chubby white kid from the suburbs. |
| mushy | Having the consistency of mush. Mushy vegetables. |
| oozy | Leaking out slowly. |
| pulpy | Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness. Simmer gently until the fruit is very soft and pulpy. |
| sloppy | Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual. She wore a sloppy sweater and jeans. |
| slushy | Being or resembling melting snow. Slushy snow. |
| soft and wet | Yielding readily to pressure or weight. |
| squashy | Easily crushed or squeezed into a different shape; having a soft consistency. A big squashy leather chair. |
| squishy | Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility. The road is a sluice of squishy mud. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dripping” as an adverb can have the following definitions:
| soaking | Extremely wet. Soaking wet. |
| sopping | Extremely wet. |
| beck | A beckoning gesture. |
| cascade | Rush down in big quantities like a cascade. Separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes. |
| coffee | The shrub which yields coffee seeds native to the Old World tropics. A coffee pot. |
| disgorge | Pour (something) out. The wine is aged in the bottle before it is disgorged. |
| dive | A sudden marked fall in prices or profits. I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool. |
| dribble | (in soccer, hockey, and basketball) take (the ball) forwards past opponents with slight touches of the feet or the stick, or (in basketball) by continuous bouncing. He attempted to dribble the ball from the goal area. |
| drivel | Let saliva drivel from the mouth. Don t talk such drivel. |
| drop | An act of dropping supplies or troops by parachute. There was not a drop of water in sight. |
| fall | Go as if by falling. There is a fall of woodcock in the round wood above the dell. |
| filter | Remove by passing through a filter. An oil filter. |
| flow | The amount of fluid that flows in a given time. Ventilation channels keep the air flowing. |
| glen | A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains. |
| gorge | The crop of a hawk. They gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas. |
| immerse | Cause to be immersed. She immersed herself in her work. |
| percolator | A coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans. |
| plummet | Drop sharply. A climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully. |
| plunge | Quickly immerse in liquid. The stock market plunged. |
| purl | Knit with a purl stitch. Knit one purl one. |
| ravine | A deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water. |
| retch | Make the sound and movement of vomiting. With a sudden retch he vomited all over the floor. |
| saliva | A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches. |
| spew | Vomit. He felt faint and nauseous he had to get out before he spewed. |
| spill | A quantity of liquid that has spilled or been spilt. He was absolved from any blame for the oil spill. |
| submerse | Put under water. Pellets were then submersed in agar. |
| submersion | Sinking until covered completely with water. Five small islands threatened by submersion. |
| swallow | An amount of something swallowed in one action. The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter. |
| swimmer | A person who travels through the water by swimming. He is not a good swimmer. |
| trickle | A small flow of liquid. Philip trickled a line of sauce on his fish fingers. |
| urinate | Eliminate urine. The sick men urinated blood. |
| waterfall | A cascade of water falling from a height, formed when a river or stream flows over a precipice or steep incline. Each phase of a waterfall project must be complete prior to moving to the next phase. |
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