maudlin

Adjective
US[mawd-lin]/ˈmɔdlɪn/2 syllables
Synonyms: batheticdrippyhokeymawkishkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysentimentalsappysoppysoupy

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. effusively or insincerely emotional“a bathetic novel”“maudlin expressions of sympathy”“mushy effusiveness”“a schmaltzy song”“sentimental soap operas”“slushy poetry”Synonyms: batheticdrippyhokeymawkishkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysentimentalsappysoppysoupyslushyOpposite unemotionalSimilar emotional
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Maud′lin adjective

Origin: From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.

1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. “Maudlin eyes.” John Dryden “Maudlin eloquence.” Wentworth Dillon, Lord Roscommon “A maudlin poetess.” Alexander Pope “Maudlin crowd.” Robert Southey

2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.

Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
Maud′lin, Maude′line noun

Botany An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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