Meaning

2 senses
  1. Of a liquid, thick and sticky.

  2. Consisting of treacle, or cloying, sentimental speech.

More definitions
  • overly sweet

Origin

From treacle + -ly.

From treacle + -ly.

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Forms

treaclier, treacliest
Comparativetreaclier Lesson
Superlativetreacliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

34 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedtreacle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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