Mawkish vs Melodramatic - What's the difference?
mawkish | melodramatic |
Feeling sick, queasy.
(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
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Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
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As adjectives the difference between mawkish and melodramatic
is that mawkish is feeling sick, queasy while melodramatic is of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.mawkish
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Alternative forms
* maukish (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
Antonyms
* (excessively or falsely sentimental) rationalSynonyms
* (excessively or falsely sentimental) cutesy, schmaltzymelodramatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.