mawkish | Definition of mawkish

Synonyms and Antonyms of mawkish

appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way

a mawkish plea for donations to the charity

Synonyms of mawkish

chocolate-box, cloying, corny, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet

Words Related to mawkish

dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed

feel-good, fuzzy

melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy

flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery

cutesy, twee [chiefly British]

Near Antonyms of mawkish

unadulterated, unvarnished

antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded

Antonyms of mawkish