glop

Unappetizing thick substance

Glop is any thick, messy, unappetizing substance—especially food that looks unidentifiable or unappealing: What is this glop?

The word suggests something viscous and formless, like cafeteria gravy or industrial sludge.

By extension, glop can describe anything cheap, tasteless, or thrown together without care: sentimental glop.

substance

slime

Thick wet gunk

  • sludgeSemi-solid waste material
  • gooViscous sticky matter
  • gunkViscous unpleasant substance

muck · ooze · goop · slurry · paste · mush · gruel · crud · schmear · blob

sound

plop

Soft dropping sound

  • splatWet striking sound
  • squelchForcibly silence or suppress
  • glugLiquid pouring sound

splatter · slurp · gurgle · splosh · drip · ooze · burble

mess

spill

Accidental liquid release

smudge · drip · blob · puddle · splotch · scatter · dribble · streak · daub · slather

food

gruel

Thin watery porridge

gravy · pudding · stew · casserole · mush · cafeteria · unappetizing · ladleful · serving · institutional

texture

gooey

Soft and sticky

slimy · tacky · mucilaginous · syrupy · oozy · gummy · pasty · mushy · doughy · glutinous

consistency

thick

Having great depth

chunky · creamy · stiff · opaque · viscid · globby · amorphous · formless · clumpy · blobby

Categories
Opposites
food quality and refinement

glopgourmet food

Premium culinary preparations

haute cuisine · delicacy · fine dining · cordon bleu · ambrosia

texture and form

glopsolid

Firm matter state

crystal · crisp texture · structure · form · crisp

visual/aesthetic appeal

glopelegance

Refined, graceful quality

neatness · pristine · immaculate · tidiness · orderliness

Family

gloop, gloppy, glob, gloppier, glopping, glops, glopped

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G