English Explanatory Dictionary

mawkish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  2. Feeling sick, queasy.
  3. Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɔːkɪʃ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mawkish.wav /ˈmɑːkɪʃ/

Word forms

mawkish more mawkish most mawkish maukish

Etymology

From mawk + -ish.

Synonyms

bathetic cheesy corny drippy gooey hokey icky kitsch kitschy maudlin mawkish mushy overemotional oversentimental overwrought sappy schmaltzy sickly sweet slushy soppy soupy syrupy treacly cutesy sickly-sweet nauseated vomity barfy nauseatic pukey pukish queasy sick sick to one's stomach bland cardboard flaggy flavorless ingustible intastable savorless insipid tame gustless sapidless smackless tasteless unsavory untasteable vapid wallowish watery waugh wearish wersh bad buckish cacodorous fetid foul-smelling

Antonyms

apathetic rational stoic

Related words

campy cloying carried away worked up

Derived words

mawkishly mawkishness unmawkish
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