maudlin en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɑːd.lɪn/ (cot-caught-merger)
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- /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/ (General-American)
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- /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English Maudelen, a dialectal form of Mary Magdalene (typically depicted weeping), from Old French Madelaine (whence Madeleine), from Late Latin Magdalena (see Magdalena, Magdalene, and Maudlin).
Meanings
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Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165:...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott FitzgeraldHe was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
c. 1900, O. Henry, The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball:Why, man, you couldn't stand—you made everybody laugh in the Gardens, though you were crying yourself. You were maudlin, Jos. Don't you remember singing a song?
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
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Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
To cap it all I had written a letter to Mara saying that we had to find a way out soon or I would commit suicide. It must have been a maudlin letter because when she telephoned me she said it was imperative to see me immediately.
1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 105:On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.
1961, CS Lewis, A Grief Observed:
- (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most maudlin | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more maudlin | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
maudlinize · sweet maudlin · maudlinism · unmaudlin · maudlinness · maudlinwort · maudlinly
Synonyms
hokey · mad with it · sorrowsome · twisted · saturnine · fap · weepy · three sheets in the wind · tuned · depressed · watery · ginned · heavy-hearted · out of it · melancholic · cockeyed · floored · solemn · emotional · grief-stricken · tippled · worse for wear · mournful · dull · weepy · mawkish · bathetic · slammed · juiced up · glum · sauced up · Oliver · jaked · cut up · low-spirited · unlively · loopy · destroyed · threnetical · maudlin · crysome · legless · lushed · kitschy · blitheless · tilted · disconsolate · woebegone · slushy · off one's head · sorrowful · hammered · bummed out · overrefreshed · morose · hosed · oversentimental · bungfu · overwrought · drunk · high as a kite · unhappy · four sheets in the wind · looped · jarred · uncheery · weepy · have drink taken · sorrow-ridden · plastered · snookered · Plutonic · stoned · blue · in one's cups · heartsore · high · overcome · larruped · sombre · ratfaced · whittled · disguised · a sheet in the wind · on the ran tan · messed up · cryey · elephant's · corny · lathered · primed · flooey · langered · squishy · off one's box · cryey · blasted · tight · insober · shitty · top-heavy · Adrian Quist · quisby · moody · half lit · mullered · monged · kisky · jawfallen · oiled · tristful · puggled · treacly · Plutonian · squiffed · sauced · wretched · how came you so · woeful · dismal · souped-up · hog-whimpering · kitsch · sozzled · lubricated · out of one's box · glorious · muzzy · cocked · langers · groggy · ebriated · high as a Georgia pine · scammered · fluted · dejected · tanked up · kettled · hoovered · lachrymose · teary · mournful · shedded · dolesome · aled up · slushy · bedrunken · lumpish · throwed · despondent · MWI · insobrietous · pie-eyed · soaken · inebriate · spiffed · drunken · a sheet in the wind's eye · hooched up · cheerless · canned · gee-eyed · skunked · sottish · shattered · gloomy · down · Brahms · grieving · inebriated · in one's altitudes · schmaltzy · overwrought · dead drunk · sappy · temulent · crocked · budgy · boozy · out of one's face · burlin' · sprung · well-oiled · plaintive · frosted · melancholy · overemotional · wazzed · clobbered · ebriose · fuddled · flustered · besotten · downcast · rubbered · lamentful · lit · in the drink · twatfaced · stonkered · blue · maggot · Mozart and Liszt · passionate · zorched · drippy · steamboats · chopfallen · adrip · obfuscated · woozy · querulous · out of sight · liquory · sobful · zooted · screwed · fershnickered · maggoted · drippy · all mops and brooms · oiled up · loose · larmoyant · elegious · spanceled · fuckered up · have the sun in one's eyes · ripe · bottled · sotted · disgruntled · elevated · hooted · sodden · razzled · in liquor · soupy · fuckfaced · bombed · bollocksed · schloshed · pixilated · mushy · kaylied · polluted · snuffy · full · stewed · ripped · plaintful · cup-shot · worse for liquor · soused · low · stinko · zotzed · teary · threnetic · arseholed · shicker · withered · temulentive · spannered · parlatic · pounded · potshot · lugubrious · elephant's trunk · feeling no pain · strut · disheartened · munted · atrabiliary · uncheerful · down in the mouth · bibacious · ploughed · flush · rolling · damp · beliquored · lubed · binned · sloppy drunk · soshed · cup-shotten · fresh · mushy · saddened · snockered · dispirited · splashed · nimptopsical · inter pocula · smashed · sappy · tanked · down in the dumps · overtaken · crapulous · groggified · syrupy · schnockered · fried · doleful · larmoyant · swacked · mortal · half polluted · shickered · lachrymose · mashed · cheesy · maudlin · raddled · befuddled · bingoed · wazzocked · faced · top-heavy with drink · corned · toasted · elegiac · Brahms and Liszt · blocked · pickled · slizzard · half cut · paralytic · bibulous · liquored up · zonked · honkers · triste · wet · bevvied · nappy · fuzzy-minded · scuttered · blottoed · tipsy · cut · obliviated · infelicitous · mabok · bungalowed · shellacked · out of one's head · zoned · tight as a tick · in the bag · Oliver Twist · tearful · soppy · wobbly · newted · gesuip · mopey · spiritless · stinking · wastey · inconsolable · soppy · gassed · stoated · wrecked · slarmied · blitzed · drunk as a piper · muggy · spongy · sewed up · downhearted · cunted · lubed up · sad · plowed · blind · downsome · fluthered · lash · bladdered · loaded · wellied · trashed · lachrymate · blind drunk · heartsick · off one's tits · mortalled · bosky · joyless · miserable · maudlin · gattered · sickly sweet · hazed · fuzzy-headed · three sheets to the wind · lashed · medicated · drunked up · gished · icky · larmoyant · chapfallen · potted · stotious · ossified · lamped · sozzly · tired and emotional · schmaltzy · impaired · inebrious · crestfallen · wistful · atrabilious · muddled · besotted · fou · juiced · sullen · soupy · forlorn · moist · sloshed · unconsolable · blewed · toping · flushed · half seas over · snozzled · ruthful · woe · gooey · blootered
Translations (53)
hu érzelmeskedő (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ca ploramiques (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · pt melindroso (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · hu ömlengős (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · de selbstmitleidig (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · fr hystérique (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · hu szenvelgős (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · it piagnucoloso (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · sv gråtmild (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · sv gråtmild (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · es sensiblero (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · it sdolcinato (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · gl choromica (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · gl mexerica (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr larmoyant (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · nl schreierig (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ru napivšijsja do sostojanija slezlivovo raskajanija (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr pleurnicheur (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · fr pleurnicheur (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr maniéré (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · hy դյուրազգաց (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · de verheult (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr sentimental (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · uk плаксивий (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · uk сентиментальний (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ru расчувствовавшийся (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ca ploramiques (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · es lamentoso (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · es llorón (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr affecté (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ja 感傷的な (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · hu elérzékenyült (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · es llorica (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · es llorica (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · hu érzelgős (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · ja 泣き上戸の (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · uk розчулений (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · fr démonstratif (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · sv sentimental (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · es llorón (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · bg сълзливо сантиментален (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr histrionique (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · de larmoyant (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · ru слезливый (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · fr mièvre (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · de rührselig (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · ru сентиментальный (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · sv blödig (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · nl sentimenteel (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · nl melodramatisch (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · sv blödig (affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner) · es lloraduelos (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying) · pl łzawy (extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying)