Sugary
adjectiveContaining, resembling, or tasting of a lot of sugar; excessively sweet.
How to spell sugary
6 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce sugary
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does sugary mean?
- adjectiveContaining, resembling, or tasting of a lot of sugar; excessively sweet.
Sugary in a sentence
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The dentist warned him to cut back on sugary drinks.
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She found the dessert far too sugary for her taste.
Where does sugary come from?
Language of origin: Arabic
The base word sugar reached English through a long chain of borrowing. The ultimate source is the Sanskrit sharkara, which literally meant 'grit' or 'gravel' and was used for the granular crystals produced when cane juice was boiled down. From India the word and the product travelled west: it passed into Arabic as sukkar, then into Medieval Latin as succarum, and finally into English in the 1300s by way of Old French sucre. The adjective sugary is a native English formation, built simply by adding the everyday suffix -y, meaning 'full of' or 'resembling', to sugar; it appears from the 1500s describing things that taste sweet or are coated with sugar. Knowing that the word keeps the whole spelling of sugar and just tacks on -y is the easiest guard against dropping a letter.
How the word is built
- sugar (sweet crystalline substance)
- -y (adjective suffix: full of, resembling)
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