sugary

/ˈʃʊgəri/

/ˈʃʊgəri/

Something that's literally sugary is extremely sweet, like a sugary root beer float. If something is figuratively sugary, it's overly sentimental.

Candy corn, soft drinks, and jelly beans are all sugary — and so is the sappy Valentine's Day card your sister wrote to her crush. The adjective sugary comes from sugar, an English word that, unusually, traces its origin back to Sanskrit. Sugar comes from sharkara, "ground or candied sugar."

Definitions of sugary

1. adjective

   containing sugar
   “he eats too much sugary food”

   synonyms:

   candied, sugar-coated

   encrusted with sugar or syrup

   honeyed, honied, syrupy

   with honey added

   honeylike

   resembling honey

   sugared, sweet, sweet-flavored, sweetened

   with sweetening added

   sweet

   (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content

   sweet

   having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

   antonyms:

   sugarless

   not containing sugar

   unsugared

   with no sugar added

   unsweetened

   not made sweet

   dry

   (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation