Words and phrases that have a meaning related to maudlin: (141 results)
Often used in the same context:
mawkish, sappy, treacly, melodramatic, cloying, schmaltzy, saccharine, hackneyed, melancholy, weepy, preachy, cliched, trite, hokey, morose, bathetic, soppy, syrupy, overwrought, sentimental, corny, wistful, melancholic, formulaic, tearjerking, overfamiliar, elegiac, pretentious, twee, cheesy, poignant, stagey, lachrymose, overlong, gushy, droll, unaffecting, lugubrious, mournful, tuneful, plangent, talky, banal, didactic, dolorous, cutesy, stagy, pedantic, whispery, heartfelt, overdramatic, florid, hummable, artless, slapstick, overdetermined, ruminative, leaden, solipsistic, lunkheaded, sententious, drippy, dull, poetic, campy, tiresome, crass, ponderous, affectless, mirthless, unfunny, nihilistic, unenlightening, cynical, parodic, lyrical, escapist, turgid, puerile, ennobling, contemplative, vapid, platitudinous, nabokovian, comical, mordant, quavery, revelatory, sorrowful, humorous, reverent, histrionic, insipid, whiny, snarky, reductive, morbid, cringeworthy, jokey, singable, overemotional, jaunty, dolly, fools, trusting, bit, fool, girlish, keen, madam, miss, rotten, simple, simpletons, wench, agnes, anna, anybody, babe, babes, boyish, cassandra, pitying, tearful, folksy, pathetic, heartrending, impassioned, mirthful, mocking, remorseful, humourous, jocular, lighthearted
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Also try:drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality
— Nouns for maudlin: sentimentality, sentiment, tears, sympathy, pity, state, drunk, way, sentimentalism, mood, tone, more...
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