Word Meanings - MAUDLIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope.

Additional info about word: MAUDLIN

Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd." Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAUDLIN)

• Mawkish
• Sickly
• sentimental
• maudlin
• insipid
• loathsome
• nauseous
• flat

Related words: (words related to MAUDLIN)

• MAWKISHLY
  In a mawkish way.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• MAWKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.
• NAUSEOUS
  Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
• MAUDLINWORT
  The oxeye daisy.
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• MAWKISH
  1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.
• INSIPIDLY
  In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.
• INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
  The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• INSIPID
  1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle. 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman;
• SENTIMENTALITY
  The quality or state of being sentimental.
• SENTIMENTALISM
  The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
• SICKLY
  1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak;
• MAUDLIN; MAUDELINE
  An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
• SENTIMENTAL
  1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign
• LOATHSOME
  Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
• MAUDLIN
  Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope.
• MAUDLINISM
  A maudlin state. Dickens.
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.
• PRESENTIMENTAL
  Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. Coleridge.