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adj
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cutesy, maudlin, schmaltzy, sickly-sweet, slushy, mushy, soppy, treacly
Antonyms: rational
adj
Feeling sick, queasy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: nauseated, vomity, barfy, mawkish, nauseatic, pukey, pukish, queasy, sick, sick to one's stomach
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bland, cardboard, flaggy, flavorless, ingustible, intastable, savorless, insipid, tame, gustless, sapidless, mawkish, smackless, tasteless, unsavory, untasteable, vapid, wallowish, watery, waugh, wearish, wersh, bad, buckish, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent, malodorous, niffy, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, olid, on the nose, pongy, putredinous, reeking, reeky, ripe, smelly, stank, stenchy, stinking, stinksome, stinky, unaromatic, unfragrant, whiff, whiffy, distasteful, ill-flavored, rough, undrinkable, uneatable, unpalatable, unstomachable, yucky
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
effusively or insincerely emotional
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English mawk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English mawkish From mawk + -ish.
