syrup

syrup

noun

Definition of SYRUP

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion) <a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup>

Synonyms bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sloppiness, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)

Related Words emotion; sentiment; corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)

Near Antonyms cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

Variants of SYRUP

syrup also sirup