Mawkish synonyms and antonyms

mô'kĭsh

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bathetic
Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
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nauseating
Causing disgust, loathing, or revulsion.
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garish
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
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emotional (related)
Arousing or intended to arouse the emotions:
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sentimental (related)
Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way:
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fastidious
Showing or acting with careful attention to detail:
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gushy
Given to or characterized by gush; effusive
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insipid
Without flavor; tasteless
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loathful
Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
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maudlin
Effusively sad or full of self-pity; extremely sentimental:
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mushy
Poorly defined; indistinct or blurry:
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nauseous
The definition of nauseous is a feeling of being sick and feeling as if you need to vomit, or something disgusting or sickening.
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nostalgic
Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
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sickening
Causing sickness or nausea
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squeamish
The definition of squeamish is someone who gets easily sick to his stomach, or someone who is easily offended.
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teary
Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
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dry (antonym)
No longer wet:
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unemotional (antonym)
Involving little or no emotion; rational.
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calm (antonym)
Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed:
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romantic
Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person). [from 17th c.]
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slushy
(Of a person) Soupy.
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sobby
(By extension) Dripping wet
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soft
Not stern; lenient:
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soppy
Very wet; sodden, soaked
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gooey
Overly sentimental
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sloppy
Watery and unappetizing:
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soupy
Having the appearance or consistency of soup.
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drippy
Tending to be rainy or wet.
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sappy
(Obsolete) musty; tainted
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tear-jerking
(Informal) Emotionally charged so as to induce sorrow.
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feelings (related)
Affectedly or extravagantly emotional
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hokey
Noticeably contrived; artificial.
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kitschy
Having the nature of kitsch.
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schmalzy
Alternative spelling of schmaltzy.
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melodramatic (related)
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saccharine (related)
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cliched (related)
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tasteless
Dull; uninteresting
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serious (antonym)
The definition of serious is showing deep thought, not joking, or a situation that requires careful thought.
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  • It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.

  • But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.

  • The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.

  • She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.

  • Let's not get mawkish here, suffice to say that life has been kind to me in an absent-minded ' who's he?

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