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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | drippy, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy |
| Main Entry: | mawkish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, emotional |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey, gushing, gushy, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mushy, nauseating, romantic, sappy*, schmaltzy, sickening, sloppy, tear-jerking, teary |
| Antonyms: | calm, serious, unemotional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foolish, sentimental |
| Synonyms: | absurd, balmy, bathetic, crazy*, drippy, idiotic, illogical, insane, loony, maudlin, mushy, preposterous, silly, slushy, soppy, sticky*, stupid |
| Antonyms: | realistic, serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | threadbare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, corny |
| Synonyms: | banal, bathetic, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, familiar, hackneyed, imitative, moth-eaten, musty, overused, poor, set, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, tired, uncreative, well-worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, unused, unworn |
| Main Entry: | trite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, cliché, clichéd, common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune, flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid, warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent, relevant, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drippy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, emotional, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, romantic, sappy, slushy, sobby, soppy, weepy |
| Main Entry: | gushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotiona |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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