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MUSHY (mushier, mushiest)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: mushier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, mushiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mushy mean? 

MUSHY (adjective)
  The adjective MUSHY has 2 senses:

1. having the consistency of mushplay

2. effusively or insincerely emotionalplay

  Familiarity information: MUSHY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MUSHY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: mushier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: mushiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the consistency of mush

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Derivation:

mush (cornmeal boiled in water)

mush (any soft or soggy mass)

mushiness (a mushy pulpy softness)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Synonyms:

bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mawkish; mushy; sappy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy

Context example:

slushy poetry

Similar:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Derivation:

mushiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)


 Context examples 


He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)



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