maudlin

maudlin is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
2. adjective. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
3. noun. Alt. of Maudeline
4. adjective. effusively or insincerely emotional

   "a bathetic novel"

   "maudlin expressions of sympathy"

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

Synonyms

bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in maudlin:

mauldin

Common word forms

maudlinly, maudlinize, maudlinness

Words from these letters

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