adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- This sandwich is full of cheesy goodness.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: caseic
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cheesy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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chēʹzē
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/ˈt͡ʃiːzi/
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rhymes with -iːzi
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homophone: cheezie
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CMU ARPABET: CH IY1 Z IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Resembling or containing cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: cheesen (“made of cheese”)
- a cheesy flavor; cheesy nachos
- I like pizzas with a cheesy crust.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: caseic, cheeselike, cheesen
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- a cheesy song; a cheesy movie
- The cheesy antics had everyone giggling.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cheeseball, corny, tacky, overdone, played out, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, drippy, gooey, hokey, icky, kitsch, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, overemotional, oversentimental, overwrought, sappy, schmaltzy, sickly sweet, slushy, soppy, soupy, syrupy, treacly, banal, bromidic, stock, clichéd, commonplace, dog-eared, hackneyed, hoary, overused, overworked, pat, shopworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, warmed-over, well-worn
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Cheap, of poor quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: el cheapo, low-end, lousy, second-rate, tatty, bargainous, brand X, budget, cheap, cheapie, cheapo, cheesy, competitive, economic, economical, inexpensive, low-cost, low-priced, nickel, sixpenny, tinhorn, two a penny, unexpensive, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. (of a smile or grin)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 6
Constituting or involving a technique considered unsporting or inelegant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: games, gaming
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
of very poor quality; flimsy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English chesy, equivalent to cheese + -y. Doublet of caseic. Compare German käsig (“cheesy”).
Across languages
Translations
95 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: պանրային (panrayin) — of cheese
- Bulgarian: от сирене (ot sirene) — of cheese
- Catalan: caseós — of cheese
- Finnish: juustoinen — of cheese
- French: fromageux — of cheese
- German: käsig — of cheese
- German: Käse- — of cheese
- Ido: fromaja — of cheese
- Ido: fromajala — of cheese
- Ido: fromajoza — of cheese
- Italian: caseoso — of cheese
- Polish: serowy — of cheese
- Portuguese: caseoso — of cheese
- Russian: сы́рный (sýrnyj) — of cheese
- Serbo-Croatian: sirni — of cheese
- Spanish: caseoso — of cheese
- Welsh: cawslyd — of cheese
- Yiddish: קעזיק (kezik) — of cheese
- Armenian: պանրանման (panranman) — resembling cheese
- Bulgarian: с вкус на сирене (s vkus na sirene) — resembling cheese
- Catalan: caseós — resembling cheese
- Finnish: juustomainen — resembling cheese
- French: fromageux — resembling cheese
- Ido: fromajatra — resembling cheese
- Indonesian: berkeju — resembling cheese
- Italian: caseoso — resembling cheese
- Romanian: brânzos — resembling cheese
- Russian: творо́жистый (tvoróžistyj) — resembling cheese
- Russian: казео́зный (kazeóznyj) — resembling cheese
- Serbo-Croatian: sirast — resembling cheese
- Spanish: caseoso — resembling cheese
- Welsh: cawslyd — resembling cheese
- Yiddish: קעזיק (kezik) — resembling cheese
- Armenian: էժանագին (ēžanagin) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Bulgarian: сладникав (sladnikav) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: carrincló — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: cursi — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: xaró — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: esnob — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: kitsch — overdramatic, clichéd
- Catalan: tronat — overdramatic, clichéd
- Chinese Mandarin: 陳腐 /陈腐 (chénfǔ) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Czech: kýčovitý — overdramatic, clichéd
- Danish: klichéagtig — overdramatic, clichéd
- Danish: kitsch — overdramatic, clichéd
- Danish: overdramatiseret — overdramatic, clichéd
- Dutch: oubollig — overdramatic, clichéd
- Finnish: kitsahtava — overdramatic, clichéd
- Finnish: juustoinen — overdramatic, clichéd
- Finnish: kliseinen — overdramatic, clichéd
- French: kitsch — overdramatic, clichéd
- French: ringard — overdramatic, clichéd
- French: niais — overdramatic, clichéd
- French: quétaine — overdramatic, clichéd
- German: kitschig — overdramatic, clichéd
- German: schnulzig — overdramatic, clichéd
- German: voller Klischees — overdramatic, clichéd
- Hungarian: nyálas — overdramatic, clichéd
- Hungarian: szirupos — overdramatic, clichéd
- Japanese: 安っぽい (yasuppoi) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Japanese: 見掛け倒しの (mikakedaoshi no) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Polish: kiczowaty — overdramatic, clichéd
- Portuguese: cafona — overdramatic, clichéd
- Portuguese: piegas — overdramatic, clichéd
- Russian: низкопро́бный (nizkopróbnyj) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Russian: дрянно́й (drjannój) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Russian: зата́сканный (zatáskannyj) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Russian: изби́тый (izbítyj) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Russian: ки́тчевый (kítčevyj) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: sensiblero — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: hortera — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: cursi — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: kitsch (kich) — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: empalagoso — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: cutrón — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: pasteloso — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: huachafo — overdramatic, clichéd
- Spanish: wacha — overdramatic, clichéd
- Vietnamese: sến — overdramatic, clichéd
- Welsh: cawslyd — overdramatic, clichéd
- Finnish: halpa — cheap
- Finnish: kehno — cheap
- French: nul — cheap
- French: pourri — cheap
- French: naze — cheap
- German: billig — cheap
- Finnish: imelä — smile or grin
- Finnish: teennäinen — smile or grin
- French: faux — smile or grin
- French: forcé — smile or grin
- French: sourire de faux cul — smile or grin
- German: aufgesetzt — smile or grin
- German: gekünstelt — smile or grin
- German: künstlich — smile or grin
- Swedish: tillgjord — smile or grin