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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sugary |
| Synonyms: | candied, cloying, honeyed, ingratiating, sentimental, sweet, syrupy |
| Notes: | the artificial sweetener is saccharin; the adjective 'excessively sweet' is saccharine |
| Main Entry: | deferential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful, considerate |
| Synonyms: | civil, complaisant, courteous, disarming, duteous, dutiful, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, polite, regardful, reverential, saccharine, silken, silky, submissive |
| Notes: | deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, disobedient, disrespectful, immodest, impolite, inconsiderate, noncompliant |
| Main Entry: | disarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitching, convincing, deferential, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, inveigling, irresistible, likable, persuasive, saccharine, seductive, silken, silky, winning |
| Antonyms: | despicable, disgusting |
| Main Entry: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ingratiating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fawning, servile |
| Synonyms: | charming, crawling, deferential, disarming, flattering, humble, insinuating, obsequious, saccharine, serving, silken, smarmy, soft, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | deterring, disgusting, repellent |
| 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: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, soft, softhearted, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
| Antonyms: | hard-hearted, indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, unromantic, unsentimental |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sugary |
| Synonyms: | candied, candy-coated, cloying, delicious, honeyed, like candy, like honey, luscious, nectarous, sacchariferous, saccharine, sugar-coated, sugared, sweetened, syrupy, toothsome |
| Antonyms: | acid, bitter, salty, sour |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, kind |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, agreeable, amiable, angelic, appealing, attractive, beautiful, beloved, charming, cherished, companionable, considerate, darling, dear, dearest, delectable, delicious, delightful, dulcet, engaging, fair, generous, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, heavenly, lovable, loving, luscious, mild, mushy, patient, pet, pleasant, pleasing, precious, reasonable, saccharine, sweet-tempered, sympathetic, taking, tender, thoughtful, treasured, unselfish, winning, winsome |
| Antonyms: | mean, unfriendly, unpleasant |
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