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MAUDLIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maudlin mean?
• MAUDLIN (adjective)
The adjective MAUDLIN has 1 sense:
1. effusively or insincerely emotional
Familiarity information: MAUDLIN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Effusively or insincerely emotional
Synonyms:
bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mawkish; mushy; sappy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy
Context example:
slushy poetry
Similar:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Context examples
And as they waxed maudlin he studied them, watching the beast rise and master them and thanking God that he was no longer as they.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He grew maudlin, familiar, could hardly see the cards or sit upright.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He envied Joe, down in the village, rampant, tearing the slats off the bar, his brain gnawing with maggots, exulting in maudlin ways over maudlin things, fantastically and gloriously drunk and forgetful of Monday morning and the week of deadening toil to come.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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