adj
Meaning 1
Unpleasantly excessive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cloying
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Pronunciation
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/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɔɪɪŋ
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adj
Meaning 2
Excessively sweet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of cloy
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
overly sweet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пресищащ (presištašt) — unpleasantly excessive
- Catalan: embafador — unpleasantly excessive
- Danish: vammel — unpleasantly excessive
- Dutch: buitenissig — unpleasantly excessive
- Dutch: excessief — unpleasantly excessive
- Finnish: imelä — unpleasantly excessive
- German: übertrieben — unpleasantly excessive
- Hungarian: émelyítő — unpleasantly excessive
- Hungarian: túlzott — unpleasantly excessive
- Hungarian: émelygős — unpleasantly excessive
- Hungarian: eltúlzott — unpleasantly excessive
- Italian: stucchevole — unpleasantly excessive
- Russian: слаща́вый (slaščávyj) — unpleasantly excessive
- Spanish: empalagoso — unpleasantly excessive
- Spanish: empachoso — unpleasantly excessive
- Bulgarian: възсладък (vǎzsladǎk) — excessively sweet
- Catalan: embafador — excessively sweet
- Czech: přeslazený — excessively sweet
- Danish: vammelsød — excessively sweet
- Dutch: mierzoet — excessively sweet
- Dutch: stroperig — excessively sweet
- Dutch: zeemzoet — excessively sweet
- Finnish: imelä — excessively sweet
- Finnish: äitelä — excessively sweet
- French: écœurant — excessively sweet
- German: süßlich — excessively sweet
- German: rührselig — excessively sweet
- German: gefühlsduselig — excessively sweet
- Hungarian: émelyítő — excessively sweet
- Hungarian: túl édes — excessively sweet
- Irish: rómhilis — excessively sweet
- Italian: sdolcinato — excessively sweet
- Italian: stucchevole — excessively sweet
- Japanese: 甘ったるい (amattarui) — excessively sweet
- Russian: слаща́вый (slaščávyj) — excessively sweet
- Russian: при́торный (prítornyj) — excessively sweet
- Spanish: empalagoso — excessively sweet
- Swedish: sliskig — excessively sweet
- Swedish: sötsliskig — excessively sweet