Sumptuous vs Cloying - What's the difference?
sumptuous | cloying |
Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
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Unpleasantly excessive.
* August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
Excessively sweet.
As adjectives the difference between sumptuous and cloying
is that sumptuous is magnificent, luxurious, splendid while cloying is unpleasantly excessive.As a verb cloying is
.sumptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
- To make him loathe his vegetable meal;
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Synonyms
* lavishDerived terms
* sumption * sumptuary * sumptuousnesscloying
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
- It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.