Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
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Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maudlin
adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, mawkish,
mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "maudlin":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bathetic, drippy, hokey, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy
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