Maudlin

Quick meaning: Maudlin is a noun meaning Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.

Meaning

Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.

More Meanings

1. Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
2. (obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.
3. (historical) Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow.
4. (obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
5. (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.

Example Sentences

Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.

for alle they worſchipden hir ſouereynly / as worthy was / but ſpecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.

He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.

Why, man, you couldn't stand—you made everybody laugh in the Gardens, though you were crying yourself. You were maudlin, Jos. Don't you remember singing a song?

Word Forms

• maudlins

Synonyms for maudlin

Depending on context, synonyms include mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, drippy, soupy, slushy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include schmalzy, emotional, sentimental, bathetic, schmaltzy, mawkish.

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