Antonyms of adj drippy

3 senses of drippy

Sense 1
drippy, drizzly -- (wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day")

INDIRECT (VIA wet) -> dry -- (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry")

Sense 2
drippy -- (leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet")

INDIRECT (VIA leaky) -> tight -- (of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house")

Sense 3
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy -- (effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry")

INDIRECT (VIA emotional) -> unemotional -- (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

Similarity of adj drippy

3 senses of drippy

Sense 1
drippy, drizzly -- (wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day")
       => wet (vs. dry) -- (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather")

Sense 2
drippy -- (leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet")
       => leaky (vs. tight) -- (permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system")

Sense 3
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy -- (effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry")
       => emotional (vs. unemotional) -- (of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional")

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