mawkish
Meaning of mawkish
adjective
- Feeling sick, queasy.
- Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin.
Information about mawkish
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of mawkish
mawk-ish
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- mawkish is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
mawkish synonyms
Meaning bathetic:
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
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Translation of mawkish
- German: abgedroschen, larmoyant, sentimental, schmalzig, rührselig, schnulzig, gefühlsduselig
- Italian: patetico, sentimentale, sdolcinato
Words that rhyme with mawkish
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