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Saccharine definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAC'CHARINE, a. [L. saccharum, sugar.]
Pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; as a saccharine taste; the saccharine matter of the cane juice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin saccharum Date: circa 1674 1. a. of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar <saccharine taste> b. yielding or containing sugar <saccharine vegetables> 2. overly or sickishly sweet <saccharine flavor> 3. ingratiatingly or affectedly agreeable or friendly 4. overly sentimental ; mawkish <a saccharine love story> • saccharinity noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 sugary. 2 of, containing, or like sugar. 3 unpleasantly over-polite, sentimental, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saccharine Sac"cha*rine (? or ?), a. [F. saccharin, fr. L. saccharon sugar, Gr. ?, ?, ?, Skr. [,c]arkara. Cf. Sugar.] Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saccharine Sac"cha*rine (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [Written also saccharin.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sulphinide Sul"phi*nide, n. [Sulpho- + amine + anhydride.] (Chem.) A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates). --I. Remsen.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You describe something as saccharine when you find it unpleasantly sweet and sentimental. ...a saccharine sequel to the Peter Pan story... = sickly ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Sugary, sweet.

Moby Thesaurus

candied, cloying, deferential, disarming, honeyed, insinuating, insinuative, luscious, mawkish, oversweet, rich, sickly-sweet, silken, silky, sugared, sugary, sweet, syrupy