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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAUD'LIN, a. [corrupted from Magdelen, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.]
Drunk; fuddled; approaching to intoxication; stupid.
And the kind maudlin crowd melts in her praise.
MAUD'LIN, n. A plant of the genus Achillea.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: alteration of Mary Magdalene; from her depiction as a weeping penitent Date: 1509 1. drunk enough to be emotionally silly 2. weakly and effusively sentimental

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. weakly or tearfully sentimental, esp. in a tearful and effusive stage of drunkenness. --n. weak or mawkish sentiment. Etymology: ME f. OF Madeleine f. eccl.L Magdalena MAGDALEN, with ref. to pictures of Mary Magdalen weeping

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maudlin Maud"lin, Maudeline Maude"line, n. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe someone as maudlin, you mean that they are being sad and sentimental in a foolish way, perhaps because of drinking alcohol. Jimmy turned maudlin after three drinks. ...maudlin self-pity. ADJ 2. If you describe a song, book, or film as maudlin, you are criticizing it for being very sentimental. ...the most maudlin song of all time. ...a hugely entertaining (if over-long and maudlin) movie. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Intoxicated, inebriated, fuddled, muddled, disguised, tipsy, mellow, drunk, stupid, in liquor. 2. Silly, weak, over-emotional, sickly sentimental.

Moby Thesaurus

addled, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, befuddled, beguiled, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, confused, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, far-gone, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing, happy, idiotic, imbecile, in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, lachrymose, loony, mad, mawkish, mellow, merry, moronic, muddled, mushy, namby-pamby, nappy, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, overemotional, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, reeling, romantic, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sentimentalized, shikker, silly, sloppy, slushy, sodden, soft, soppy, sotted, soupy, sticky, stupid, tear-jerking, tearful, teary, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, wacky, weepy, wet, witless