Vocab Bloom Hub

maudlin

/ˈmɔːd.lɪn/

1 entry

Word connections

adjective

/ˈmɔːd.lɪn/C2formal
  • ruОписывает человека, который чрезмерно сентиментален, эмоционален или жалеет себя, часто со слезами или приторной чувствительностью.

Describes someone who is overly sentimental, emotional, or self-pitying, often in a tearful or mawkish way.

  1. Overly sentimentalC1formal

    Excessively or tearfully sentimental, often due to alcohol or emotion.

    ruСентиментальный

    • He became maudlin after a few drinks, crying about old memories.
    • The movie's ending was so maudlin that it felt forced.
    • She wrote a maudlin letter to her ex-boyfriend.

    Synonymscloyingeffusiveemotionalgushinglachrymosemawkishoveremotionalsappyschmaltzysentimentalsloppyslushysoppytearfulweepy

    Antonymsmatter-of-factsoberstoicunemotionalunsentimental

Forms
  • more maudlin comparative form
  • most maudlin superlative form
Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

Inherited terms

Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

Source link

All listed licenses apply

Generated by language models and not human-verified: definitions, examples, levels and translations may contain errors.