Synonyms and Antonyms of mushy
1
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
chocolate-box, cloying, corny, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
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]
2
giving easily to the touch
- mushy fruit that was obviously overripe
doughy, fleshy
droopy, flaccid, floppy, lank, limp, slack, yielding
bendable, compressible, crushable, elastic, flexible, kneadable, malleable, pliable, pliant, resilient, supple, willowy, workable
airy, light
inelastic, inflexible, rigid, stiff, tense, unbending, unyielding
resistant, sound, strong, sturdy, tough
case-hardened, crush-proof, hardened, indurated, stiffened, tempered
compacted, compressed, condensed
adamantine, rock, rocklike
sturdy, substantial
