Saccharine

Quick meaning: Saccharine is an adjective meaning (figurative) Sentimentalism.

Meaning

(figurative) Sentimentalism.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).
2. (figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
3. Alternative spelling of saccharin.
4. (dated) Of or relating to sugar; sugary.
5. (dated) Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.
6. (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
7. (dated) Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.

Example Sentences

If Captain Archie Blaine regarded these outpourings as so much adolescent saccharine he never revealed it by a single word, a smile or the flicker of an eye.

Word Forms

• saccharines

Synonyms for saccharine

Depending on context, synonyms include saccharous, cloying, sickly, precious, twee, sweet.

Antonyms for saccharine

Common opposites include nonsaccharine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include syrupy, sweet, treacly, cloying, sorghums, saccharous.

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