ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Mushy', Synonyms of 'Mushy' & More on 'Mushy'

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

mushy
    adj 1: having the consistency of mush
    2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
       "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
       schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
       [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
       kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental,
       soppy, soupy, slushy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mushy \Mush"y\, a.
   Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and
   effusive; weakly sentimental.
   [1913 Webster]

         She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Mushy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

baccate, bathetic, beery, bland, boggy, changeable, cloudy, cloying, corny, doughy, flabby, fleshy, foggy, gooey, gushing, halfhearted, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, macerated, masticated, maudlin, mawkish, milk-and-water, milky, miry, misty, namby-pamby, neutral, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pappy, pasty, pithy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, succulent, sugary, swampy, syrupy, tasteless, tear-jerking, teary, vague, vapid, vaporous, vapory, watery, wet, wishy-washy

Common Misspellings >