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Synonyms for saccharine

Most common

precious cutesy sweet cloying

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Twee — excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of…

twee UK IE, cutesy, precious

2. Sweet — containing a large or excessive amount of sugar

sweet, cloying, syrupy, treacly, sugary, sickly sweet, sickly

Other

saccharous dated rare

Noun

Antonyms

nonsaccharine

All antonyms of saccharine →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.

  2. adj. 2

    Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.

  3. n. 1

    Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.

Related words

Word family
saccharinity
Other spellings
saccharin

Forms

Plural
saccharines → sugars…

Example sentences

  • precious It's said that nothing is more precious than time.
  • cutesy Stop the childish cutesy act.
  • sweet Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.
  • cloying I thought it was cloying and trite.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
saccharinesteady
preciousrising
cutesyrising
sweetrising
cloyingrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
twee
5 letters
sweet1, sugar2
6 letters
sugary3, sickly2, cutesy2, syrupy
7 letters
cloying2, treacly
8 letters
precious2
10 letters
saccharous
14 letters
benzosulfimide

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sugar2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
cucul la praline