Imogen of the Internet cannot look at a cat, even a dead one, without coming up with a blood-curdlingly saccharine, egregiously misspelled caption in 60-point white Impact.
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Saccharine
//ˈsækəɹaɪn//
Synonyms for "saccharine" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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2 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سُكَّرِيّ adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Bulgarian
2 entries- захарен adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- сладникав adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Catalan
1 entries- sacarí adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Dutch
4 entries- honingzoet adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- mierzoet adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- sacharine adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- suikerachtig adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Finnish
2 entries- imelä adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- siirappinen adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
French
2 entries- cucul la praline adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- fleur bleue adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
German
1 entries- süßlich adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Icelandic
1 entries- sætur adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Italian
4 entries- dolciastro adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- mieloso adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- saccarifero adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- saccarino adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Latin
1 entries- saccharīnus adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Māori
1 entries- āwenewene adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Polish
1 entries- ckliwy adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Portuguese
1 entries- sacarino adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
Romanian
3 entries- dulceag adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- mieros adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- mieros adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Russian
2 entries- при́торный adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- при́торный adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sahàrīnskī adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- sahàrīnskī adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- саха̀рӣнскӣ adj (of or relating to sugar — see also sugary)
- саха̀рӣнскӣ adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Spanish
4 entries- cursi adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- dulzón adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- empalagoso adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
- meloso adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Swedish
1 entries- sötsliskig adj (excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The little girls were afforded a stretch limousine for their insipid, saccharine songs.
Source: tatoeba (5891098)
It's too saccharine.
Source: tatoeba (13691208)
If Captain Archie Blaine regarded these outpourings as so much adolescent saccharine he never revealed it by a single word, a smile or the flicker of an eye.
Source: wiktionary
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