| Main Entry: | cloying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly sweet |
Synonyms: |
cheesy*, cornball, corny*, cutesy, drippy, gooey, honeyed, mushy, over-sentimental, oversweet, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sugary, syrupy |
| Main Entry: | juicy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moist |
Synonyms: |
dank, dewy, dripping, humid, liquid, luscious, lush, mellow, oily, oozy, pulpy, sappy, saturated, sauced, slippery, slushy, soaked, sodden, succulent, syrupy, viscid, watery, wet |
Antonyms: |
dry |
| 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: | nostalgic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longingly remembering |
Synonyms: |
cornball, down memory lane, drippy, homesick, like yesterday, lonesome, longing, mushy, regretful, sappy*, sentimental, sloppy, syrupy, wistful, yearning |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
Synonyms: |
adventurous, amorous, bathetic, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fairy-tale, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mushy, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, soppy, starry-eyed, syrupy, tear-jerking, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
Synonyms: |
affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, soft, softhearted, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
Antonyms: |
hard-hearted, indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, unromantic, unsentimental |
| Main Entry: | sticky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gummy, adhesive |
Synonyms: |
agglutinative, clinging, gluey, glutinous, ropy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous |
Antonyms: |
dry, smooth, unsticky |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sugary |
Synonyms: |
candied, candy-coated, cloying, delicious, honeyed, like candy, like honey, luscious, nectarous, sacchariferous, saccharine, sugar-coated, sugared, sweetened, syrupy, toothsome |
Antonyms: |
acid, bitter, salty, sour |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concentrated, dense |
Synonyms: |
caked, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, compact, compressed, concrete, condensed, congealed, consolidated, crowded, curdled, deep, firm, fixed, gelatinous, gloppy, gooey, gummous, gummy, gunky, heavy, impenetrable, impervious, jelled, jellied, opaque, ossified, ropy, set, sloppy, solid, solidified, stiff, syrupy, thickened, turbid, viscid, viscous, vitrified |
Antonyms: |
diluted, loose, thin, watery |