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mush

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Synonyms and Antonyms of mush

1 something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental

an opera that is pure mush

Synonyms of mush

corn, goo, schmaltz (also schmalz), sludge, slush, soap opera, sorghum

Words Related to mush

claptrap, drivel, rubbish, tripe

2 the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)

couldn't stand all the mush in the movie's romantic scenes

Synonyms of mush

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

Words Related to mush

corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)

Near Antonyms of mush

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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