'Maudlin' definitions:

Definition of 'maudlin'

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adjective
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]

Definition of 'Maudlin'

From: GCIDE
  • Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.]
  • 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." --Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." --Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." --Pope. "Maudlin crowd." --Southey. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. [1913 Webster]
  • Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron. [1913 Webster] Maudlin

Definition of 'Maudlin'

From: GCIDE
  • Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow. [1913 Webster]

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