mawkish

mawkish is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 19 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 19 · Words With Friends 19 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
2. adjective. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
3. adjective. effusively or insincerely emotional

   "a bathetic novel"

   "maudlin expressions of sympathy"

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

Synonyms

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

Common word forms

mawkishly, mawkishness

Words from these letters

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