Synonyms for mush
noun
Boiled meal
Indian meal, hasty pudding, supawn, samp, hominy, cereal, grain, spoon*, victual*; see also food.
Any soft mass
pulp, slush, dough; see mash.
*Sentimentality
sentimentalism, excessive sentiment, mawkishness, affectation, superficiality, superficial sentiment, exaggerated sentiment, romanticism, maudlinism, a sentiment about sentiment, puppy love*, gush*, flap-doodle*, hearts and flowers*, sob stuff*; see also love.
See mush in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
- (Informal)
The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional:
bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. (Informal) mushiness, schmaltz, schmaltziness, sloppiness. (Slang) sappiness. See feelings
verb
To press forcefully so as to break up into a pulpy mass:
crush, mash, pulp, squash. See help
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