hokey

hokey is a 5-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: artificially formal. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 13 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. artificially formal

   "that artificial humility that her husband hated"

   "contrived coyness"

   Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted

2. adjective. effusively or insincerely emotional

   "a bathetic novel"

   "maudlin expressions of sympathy"

   Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy

Synonyms

artificial, contrived, stilted, bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy

Common word forms

hokeyness

Words from these letters

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