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MUSHY (mushier, mushiest)
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, mushiest Dictionary entry overview: What does mushy mean?
• MUSHY (adjective)
The adjective MUSHY has 2 senses:
1. having the consistency of mush
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
Familiarity information: MUSHY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: mushiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the consistency of mush
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Derivation:
mush (cornmeal boiled in water)
mush (any soft or soggy mass)
mushiness (a mushy pulpy softness)
Sense 2
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)
Derivation:
mushiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)
Context examples
He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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