corny
Meaning of corny
adjective
- trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental.
it sounds corny, but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one
1930s: from an earlier sense ‘rustic, appealing to country folk’.
Information about corny
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of corny
corny
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- corny is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
corny synonyms
Meaning bromidic:
bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous
Meaning so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring:
Meaning (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse:
Meaning (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite:
Meaning not unusual; ordinary:
Meaning showing a lack of originality; based on frequently repeated phrases or opinions:
Meaning able to be predicted:
Meaning viewed or represented as a stereotype:
Meaning lacking sense or meaning; silly:
Meaning silly and pointless:
Meaning offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland:
Meaning naive, simplistic, and superficial:
Meaning lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy:
Meaning lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness:
Meaning (especially of a statement or idea) boring or uninteresting because overfamiliar:
Meaning no longer new and interesting or exciting:
Meaning (of a person) having to work beyond their capacity or strength:
Meaning used too much:
Meaning sentimental in an exaggerated or false way:
Meaning having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way:
Meaning excessively sentimental or mawkish:
Meaning excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree:
Meaning excessively sentimental:
syrupy, sugary, mushy, schmaltzy
Meaning excessively sweet or sentimental:
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 (of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air:
Meaning excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental:
Meaning lacking originality; hackneyed:
Meaning like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency:
Meaning resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush:
Meaning (of literature or behaviour) weakly or foolishly sentimental:
Meaning cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent:
Meaning attractive in a pretty or endearing way:
Meaning mawkishly sentimental:
Meaning weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental:
Meaning resembling treacle in consistency, taste, or appearance:
Meaning unpleasantly sticky:
Meaning self-indulgently sentimental:
Meaning trite and sentimental:
Meaning mawkishly over-sentimental:
corny antonyms
Meaning present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest:
Translation of corny
- German: platt
Anagrams of corny
Words that rhyme with corny
Corny, peppercorny, scorny, Podgorny, Thorny, hawthorny, horny, semihorny, thorny, unhorny, unthorny, Pokorny, porny
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