Meaning & use
melty
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Soft, gooey, or partly liquefied from heat.
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The grilled cheese sandwich was perfectly melty in the middle.
By the time we got the ice cream home, it was too melty to scoop.
A note on using this word
An informal, mostly food-related word that has become widely accepted in casual writing, though it remains too colloquial for formal contexts.
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