| Main Entry: | mawkish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, emotional |
Synonyms: |
bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey, gushing, gushy, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mushy, nauseating, romantic, sappy*, schmaltzy, sickening, sloppy, tear-jerking, teary |
Antonyms: |
calm, serious, unemotional |
| Main Entry: | corny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, clichéd |
Synonyms: |
banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, melodramatic, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, warmed-over |
Antonyms: |
new, original, unique |
| Main Entry: | hokey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corny |
Synonyms: |
banal, commonplace, dull*, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, trite |
| Main Entry: | maudlin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | teary, overemotional |
Synonyms: |
bathetic, befuddled, confused, cornball, drippy, gushing, insipid, lachrymose, mawkish, mushy, romantic, schmaltzy, sentimental, slush, soap, soapy, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, weak, weepy |
Antonyms: |
calm, matter-of-fact, unimaginative |
| Main Entry: | mushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | romantic, corny |
Synonyms: |
bathetic, effusive, emotional, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, saccharine, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy*, slushy, soppy, sugary, syrupy, tear-jerking, weepy, wet |
Antonyms: |
unfeeling, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | sickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | revolting |
Synonyms: |
bilious, cloying, insalubrious, mawkish, morbid, morose, nauseating, noisome, noxious, sick, unwholesome |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overused, out-of-date |
Synonyms: |
antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless |
Antonyms: |
current, fresh, new, underused |
| Main Entry: | sugary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloyingly sweet |
Synonyms: |
cloying, honeyed, mawkish, sappy, sentimental, sugarcoated, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | sugary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweetened |
Synonyms: |
candied, flattering, glace, honeyed, mawkish, pleasant, sacchariferous, saccharine, sticky, sweet, syrupy |
| Main Entry: | bathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
Synonyms: |
drippy, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy |
