Cloying

/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/

Synonyms for "cloying" (93 found)

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Closest matches (19)

Adjective(5 words)

saccharine syrupy candied cherubic corniest

acrid bad barfy bathetic beery brackish cloysome effusive excessive fetid filling foul fulsome gooey

Strong matches (28)

gushing high icky jading luscious maggoty maudlin mawkish mushynamby pambynamby-pamby nasty nauseant nauseating nauseous noisome nostalgic nostomanic noxious offensive

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overfilling overripe

Adjective(6 words)

gushy mawkish oozy overbearing overdrive overemphasize

Related words (46)

oversentimental oversentimentalized oversweet poisonous rancid rank rebarbative rich romantic rotten saccharine sappy satiating sating satisfying schmaltzy sentimental sentimentalized sickening sickly-sweet

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sloppy soft spoiled sticky stinking surfeiting sweettear jerkingtear-jerking teary vile vomity weevily yucky

Adjective(11 words)

oversweeten overwhelm schmaltzier schmaltzy sicken sickly sugarier sugariest sugary treacly weary

Adjective(1 words)

unpleasantly excessive

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

7 entries

affect cause excessiveness influence persuadesensory overloadsentimentality

More specific

11 entries

heavy perfumemawkishness nauseateoverbearing sweetnessoveremphasize overwhelm sickensickly scentsugarcoatingsyrupy aromaweary

Collocations

8 entries

cloying aromacloying atmospherecloying flavorcloying prosecloying rhetoriccloying sentimentcloying sweetnesscloying tone

Inflections

4 entries

cloyed cloysmore cloyingmost cloying

Derivations

5 entries

cloy cloyance cloyed cloyingly cloyingness

similar

1 entries

sweet

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

She refers to Nostradamus with the rather cloying nickname "Nosty".

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Ana's boyfriend is so cloying. He's always trying to kiss her and hold her hand.

Source: tatoeba (5396720)

As soon as he stepped through the front door, Tom recognised the cloying smell of Mary's perfume.

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I found the movie cloying.

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