The meaning of Cloying

ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ

Cloying – definition

adjective
Excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.
Usage examples:
A romantic, rather cloying story

verb
Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
Usage examples:
A curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses
Synonims:
Become sickening Become nauseating Pall Become distasteful Become tedious Become tiresome Be excessive Sickly sweet Sugary Syrupy Saccharine Honeyed Oversweet Sickening Nauseating Disgusting

adjective
Tasting or smelling too sweet and therefore unpleasant
Usage examples:
This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying., the room was filled wi…

Cloying translation into English

Cloying: translate from English into Chinese

令人厌烦的

Cloying: translate from English into Dutch

Plakkerig, Overladen

Cloying: translate from English into French

Écoeurant, Perdre son charme

Cloying: translate from English into German

Süßlich

Cloying: translate from English into Hindi

Cloying, ऊबाना, जी उचाट करना

Cloying: translate from English into Italian

Stucchevole, Saziare, Stuccare

Cloying: translate from English into Korean

클로잉, 잔뜩 먹이다

Cloying: translate from English into Russian

Приторный, Надоедливый

Cloying: translate from English into Spanish

Empalagoso

Word origin

late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.

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Cloying synonims

disgusting

adjective
Arousing revulsion or strong indignation.
Usage examples:
He had the most disgusting rotten teeth

verb
Cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval.
Usage examples:
They were disgusted by the violence

Highly offensive

All meanings and translations of Disgusting

honeyed

adjective
(of food) containing or coated with honey.
Usage examples:
Sweet honeyed pastries

adjective
Used to describe speech or a person's voice when it is gentle and pleasant to listen to, sometimes in a way that is not sincere

All meanings and translations of Honeyed

nauseating

adjective
Causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting.
Usage examples:
The stench was nauseating

verb
Affect with nausea.
Usage examples:
The thought of food nauseated her

adjective
Making you feel as if you are going to vomit
Usage examples:
The tv news can be pretty nauseating at times.

All meanings and translations of Nauseating

oversweet

adjective
Excessively sweet in taste.
Usage examples:
A cup of oversweet tea

All meanings and translations of Oversweet

pall

noun
A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
Usage examples:
During the mass, they covered the coffin with a pall, some kind of cloth. we took it off on the way…

verb
Become less appealing or interesting through familiarity.
Usage examples:
The novelty of the quiet life palled

noun
A dark, thick covering or cloud that blocks light
Usage examples:
A heavy pall of smoke from the forest fires blotted out the sun., news of his death cast a pall ove…

All meanings and translations of Pall

saccharine

adjective
Excessively sweet or sentimental.
Usage examples:
Saccharine music

noun
Another term for saccharin.

adjective
Too pleasant or charming, with too much feeling to be believed
Usage examples:
Longfellow’s later poems are regarded as saccharine.

All meanings and translations of Saccharine

sickening

adjective
Causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust.
Usage examples:
A sickening stench of blood

verb
Make (someone) feel disgusted or appalled.
Usage examples:
She was sickened by the bomb attack

adjective
Extremely unpleasant; causing you to experience unpleasant feelings
Usage examples:
She slipped and fell with a sickening thud.

All meanings and translations of Sickening

sugary

adjective
Containing much sugar.
Usage examples:
Energy-restoring, sugary drinks

adjective
Containing sugar
Usage examples:
All those sugary snacks that kids eat, it's that sugary smile of his that i can't stand!

All meanings and translations of Sugary

syrupy

adjective
Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup.
Usage examples:
Syrupy puddings

All meanings and translations of Syrupy

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