saccharine
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Is saccharine a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of saccharine?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (dated) Of or relating to sugar; sugary.Synonyms: saccharousdated
2. (dated) Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.Synonyms: cloying, sickly, sickly sweetdated
3. (figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.Synonyms: cloying, precious, saccharined, sickly, tweeAntonyms: nonsaccharinederogatoryfiguratively
4. (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
noun (English)
1. (dated) Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.dateduncountable
2. (figurative) Sentimentalism.Examples: "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."figurativelyuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary