Meaning of MUSHY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mushee
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- [adj] effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
- [adj] having the consistency of mush
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| | Synonyms: | | bathetic, emotional, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soft |
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| | Definition: | | \Mush"y\, a.
Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and
effusive; weakly sentimental.
She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.
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| | Related Terms: | | baccate, bathetic, beery, bland, boggy, changeable, cloudy, cloying, corny, doughy, flabby, fleshy, foggy, gooey, gushing, halfhearted, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, macerated, masticated, maudlin, mawkish, milk-and-water, milky, miry, misty, namby-pamby, neutral, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pappy, pasty, pithy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, succulent, sugary, swampy, syrupy, tasteless, tear-jerking, teary, vague, vapid, vaporous, vapory, watery, wet, wishy-washy |
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