cloying

Meaning of cloying

adjective
  1. excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.
    a romantic, rather cloying story
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
    a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses
    the first sip gives a malty taste that never cloys

late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.

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Hyphenation of cloying

cloy-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • cloying is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

cloying synonyms

Meaning saccharine:

saccharine, syrupy, treacly

Meaning a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb:

pall

Meaning containing much sugar:

sugary

Meaning (of food) containing or coated with honey:

honeyed

Meaning excessively sweet in taste:

oversweet

Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:

sickening

Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:

nauseating

Meaning arousing revulsion or strong indignation:

disgusting

Meaning sentimental in an exaggerated or false way:

mawkish

Meaning self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental:

maudlin

Meaning of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia:

sentimental

Meaning excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental:

twee

Meaning soft and pulpy:

mushy

Meaning resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush:

slushy

Meaning careless and unsystematic; excessively casual:

sloppy

Meaning cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent:

cutesy

Meaning attractive in a pretty or endearing way:

cute

Meaning soft and sticky:

gooey

Meaning weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental:

drippy

Meaning like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency:

cheesy

Meaning trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental:

corny

Meaning unpleasantly sticky:

icky

Meaning trite and sentimental:

cornball

Meaning mawkishly over-sentimental:

sappy

Anagrams of cloying

Coligny

Words that rhyme with cloying

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