Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggerated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overstated, embellished |
| Synonyms: | a bit thick, abstract, amplified, artificial, bouncing, caricatural, distorted, embroidered, exalted, excessive, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, false, fantastic, farfetched, hammy, highly colored, histrionic, hyperbolic, impossible, inflated, magnified, melodramatic, out of proportion, overblown, overdone, overestimated, overkill, overwrought, preposterous, pretentious, schmaltzy, sensational, spectacular, steep, strained, stylized, tall, too much*, too-too, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | depreciated, minimized, played down, reduced, understated, unembellished, unexaggerated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maudlin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | teary, overemotional |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, befuddled, confused, cornball, drippy, gushing, insipid, lachrymose, mawkish, mushy, romantic, schmaltzy, sentimental, slush, soap, soapy, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, weak, weepy |
| Antonyms: | calm, matter-of-fact, unimaginative |
| 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: | 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: | theatrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dramatic |
| Synonyms: | affected, amateur, artificial, campy, ceremonious, comic, dramaturgic, exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, mannered, melodramatic, meretricious, operatic, ostentatious, pompous, schmaltzy, show, showy, staged, stilted, superficial, theatric, thespian, tragic, unnatural, unreal, vaudeville |
| Antonyms: | comedic, real, undramatic, untheatrical |
| Main Entry: | bathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | drippy, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy |
| Main Entry: | la-di-da |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, mannered, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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