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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | cloying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly sweet |
| Synonyms: | cheesy*, cornball, corny*, cutesy, drippy, gooey, honeyed, mushy, over-sentimental, oversweet, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sugary, syrupy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, birdbrained, boneheaded, brainless, dense, dull, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, inane, insensate, jerky, lamebrained, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, puerile, sappy, silly, simple, vacuous, witless |
| Antonyms: | aware, bright, intelligent, keen, sensible, smart |
| Main Entry: | inane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, daft, empty, fatuous, flat, foolish, frivolous, futile, harebrained, idiotic, illogical, imbecilic, innocuous, insipid, jejune, laughable, meaningless, mindless, pointless, puerile, ridiculous, sappy*, senseless, silly, trifling, unintelligent, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, weak, wishy-washy, worthless |
| Notes: | inane means silly, lacking significance or insubstantial; insane means mentally deranged, mad or very foolish |
| Antonyms: | bright, intelligent, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juicy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moist |
| Synonyms: | dank, dewy, dripping, humid, liquid, luscious, lush, mellow, oily, oozy, pulpy, sappy, saturated, sauced, slippery, slushy, soaked, sodden, succulent, syrupy, viscid, watery, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | liquid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fluid, flowing, melting |
| Synonyms: | aqueous, damp, deliquescent, dissolvable, dissolved, dulcet, fluent, fluidic, fusible, ichorous, juicy, liquefied, liquescent, liquiform, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, meltable, melted, moist, molten, moving, pulpy, running, runny, sappy, serous, smooth, soft, solvent, splashing, succulent, thawed, thin, uncongealed, viscous, watery, wet |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | close, condensed, dense, firm, hard, solid |
| 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: | nostalgic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longingly remembering |
| Synonyms: | cornball, down memory lane, drippy, homesick, like yesterday, lonesome, longing, mushy, regretful, sappy*, sentimental, sloppy, syrupy, wistful, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ridiculous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid, funny |
| Synonyms: | absurd, antic, bizarre, comic, comical, contemptible, daffy, derisory, droll, fantastic, farcical, foolheaded, foolish, gelastic, goofy*, grotesque, harebrained, hilarious, impossible, incredible, jerky, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, outrageous, preposterous, risible, sappy*, silly, slaphappy, unbelievable, wacky* |
| Antonyms: | believable, reasonable, sensible, serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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