The meaning of Mushiest

adjective

Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency.

Usage examples:

A pungent, cheesy sauce

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

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…

adjective

Trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental.

Usage examples:

It sounds corny, but as soon as i saw her i knew she was the one

adjective

Emotional and obvious from having been used too often

Usage examples:

It sounds corny, but when i get to the beach i feel like a kid again.

adjective

Cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent.

Usage examples:

The film's cutesy shots of children playing in the streets

adjective

Artificially attractive and charming, esp. in a way suitable for a child

Usage examples:

The house is full of cutesy pictures of kittens.

adjective

Weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental.

Usage examples:

A drippy love song

adjective

Boring and without a strong character

Usage examples:

Where's that drippy brother of yours?

adjective

Relating to a person's emotions.

Usage examples:

Gaining emotional support from relatives

adjective

Connected with or showing feelings

Usage examples:

The mayor made an emotional appeal for aid following the tornado., the coach appeared emotionally d…

adjective

Thick or sticky

Usage examples:

The pies had an unpleasantly gloopy texture., add a banana to make the smoothies lovely and gloopy.

adjective

Soft and sticky.

Usage examples:

A gooey chocolate dessert

adjective

(of a substance) thick and sticky

Usage examples:

A gooey dessert

exclamation

Used to express a feeling of shock or dislike that makes you feel sick

Usage examples:

Then he kissed her! ick!

adjective

If two people in a romantic relationship are lovey-dovey, they show their love for each other in public by touching each other and saying loving things.

adjective

Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way.

Usage examples:

A mawkish ode to parenthood

adjective

Showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way

Usage examples:

The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end.

noun

A child's word for father.

Usage examples:

Pappy was always busy

adjective

Of the nature or consistency of pap.

Usage examples:

Pappy desserts

adjective

Pappy food is unpleasantly soft or contains too much water

Usage examples:

Pappy pasta, it's just another pappy novel.

adjective

Of the nature of or consisting of pulp; resembling pulp; pulpy.

adjective

Resembling or consisting of pulp; mushy.

Usage examples:

Simmer gently until the fruit is very soft and pulpy

adjective

Feeling or looking like a soft wet mass, often with fibres (= thin threads) in it

Usage examples:

He pounded the roots and stems into a pulpy mush., the brown pulpy residue is about half wood fibre…

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.

adjective

Excessively sentimental.

Usage examples:

Schmaltzy ballads

adjective

Of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

Usage examples:

She felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her

adjective

Related to feelings rather than reason

Usage examples:

When you ask which team will win, my sentimental favorite would have to be philadelphia., he gets s…

adjective

Often ill; in poor health.

Usage examples:

She was a thin, sickly child

adjective

Weak and unhealthy

Usage examples:

He was a sickly child.

adjective

Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

Usage examples:

We gave away a goal through sloppy defending

adjective

Messy or lacking care or attention

Usage examples:

Sloppy clothes, a sloppy administrator, sloppy weather, her grandchildren nearly smothered her with…

adjective

Very wet or liquid, often in a way that is unpleasant

Usage examples:

The batter was a bit sloppy so i added some more flour., she covered his face with sloppy kisses.

adjective

Wet and sticky; slushy.

Usage examples:

The sloshy mud

adjective

Resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush.

Usage examples:

Slushy snow

noun

A partially frozen drink made with crushed ice and sweet, typically fruit-flavoured syrup.

Usage examples:

Grape slushies

adjective

Slushy snow is partly melted.

Usage examples:

A slushy romantic novel

adjective

Easy to mould, cut, compress, or fold; not hard or firm to the touch.

Usage examples:

Soft margarine

adverb

(of a consonant) pronounced as a fricative (as c in ice ).

adjective

Not hard or firm; changing its shape when pressed

Usage examples:

The crabs are plucked from the water before their soft shells have had a chance to harden., the bab…

adjective

Having the appearance or consistency of soup.

Usage examples:

A soupy stew

adjective

Slightly thick and wet, like soup

Usage examples:

Add the milk to the sauce in batches and stir, stopping before it gets too soupy., it was okay i su…

adjective

Like a sponge, especially in being porous, compressible, or absorbent.

Usage examples:

A soft, spongy blanket of moss

adjective

Soft and able to absorb a lot of liquid

Usage examples:

The ground was damp and spongy.

adjective

Easily crushed or squeezed into a different shape; having a soft consistency.

Usage examples:

A big, squashy leather chair

adjective

Soft and easy to crush

Usage examples:

I've bought some squashy pillows for the couch.

adjective

Making a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground

Usage examples:

The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car., they mountain-biked through squelchy…

adjective

Soft, spongy, and moist.

Usage examples:

A squidgy cream cake

adjective

Soft and wet and changing shape easily when pressed

Usage examples:

Bread which has just come out of the oven is often still squidgy in the middle.

adjective

Soft and moist.

Usage examples:

The bananas will turn soft and squishy

adjective

Soft and easily crushed or shaped

Usage examples:

Squishy white bread

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!

adjective

Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup.

Usage examples:

Syrupy puddings

adjective

Resembling treacle in consistency, taste, or appearance.

Usage examples:

A treacly black fuel

adjective

Dark and sticky, like treacle

Usage examples:

He'd coated the shelves with a thick treacly varnish., the film is spoilt by a slightly treacly sen…

adjective

Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

Usage examples:

Although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable

adjective

Tearful; inclined to weep.

Usage examples:

Seeing a bride always made her feel weepy

noun

A sentimental film, book, or song.

Usage examples:

Part weepy, part thriller, the deliberately paced action is infused with unpredictable psychologica…

adjective

Feeling likely to cry

Usage examples:

I felt tired and weepy., if i were you i'd take some tissues - it's a real weepy.