mawkish

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/    美 /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
    — Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
  2. Feeling sick, queasy. archaic,dialectal
  3. Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. archaic

词形变化

more mawkish comparative most mawkish superlative maukish alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
bathetic cheesy corny drippy gooey hokey icky kitsch kitschy maudlin mawkish mushy overemotional oversentimental overwrought sappy schmaltzy sickly sweet slushy soppy soupy syrupy treacly
反义词
apathetic rational stoic
上位词
emotional sentimental
下位词
cutesy precious saccharine sugary twee
衍生词
mawkishly mawkishness unmawkish
相关词
campy cloying carried away worked up

词源

Etymology tree
English mawk
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English mawkish
From mawk + -ish.
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