cloying
Meaning of cloying
adjective
- excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.
a romantic, rather cloying story
- disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses
the first sip gives a malty taste that never cloys
late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.
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Hyphenation of cloying
cloy-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- cloying is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cloying synonyms
Meaning saccharine:
Meaning a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb:
Meaning containing much sugar:
Meaning (of food) containing or coated with honey:
Meaning excessively sweet in taste:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:
Meaning arousing revulsion or strong indignation:
Meaning sentimental in an exaggerated or false way:
Meaning self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental:
Meaning of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia:
Meaning excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental:
Meaning soft and pulpy:
Meaning resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush:
Meaning careless and unsystematic; excessively casual:
Meaning cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent:
Meaning attractive in a pretty or endearing way:
Meaning soft and sticky:
Meaning weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental:
Meaning like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency:
Meaning trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental:
Meaning unpleasantly sticky:
Meaning trite and sentimental:
Meaning mawkishly over-sentimental:
Anagrams of cloying
Words that rhyme with cloying
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