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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the consistency of mush
2: 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 (mushier; -est) Date: 1839 1. a. having the consistency of mush ; soft b. lacking in definition or precision 2. excessively tender or emotional; especially mawkishly amorous • mushily adverb • mushiness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mushy Mush"y, a. Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Vegetables and fruit that are mushy are soft and have lost most of their shape. When the fruit is mushy and cooked, remove from the heat. ADJ 2. If you describe someone or something as mushy, you mean that they are very sentimental. Don't go getting all mushy and sentimental. ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

baccate, bathetic, beery, bland, boggy, changeable, cloudy, cloying, corny, doughy, flabby, fleshy, foggy, gooey, gushing, halfhearted, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, macerated, masticated, maudlin, mawkish, milk-and-water, milky, miry, misty, namby-pamby, neutral, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pappy, pasty, pithy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, succulent, sugary, swampy, syrupy, tasteless, tear-jerking, teary, vague, vapid, vaporous, vapory, watery, wet, wishy-washy