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Mawkish vs Melodramatic - What's the difference?

mawkish | melodramatic |

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

English

Alternative forms

* maukish (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling sick, queasy.
  • (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  • * 2014 August 11, , " 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) rational

    Synonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) cutesy, schmaltzy

    melodramatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
  • Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
  • She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
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