Maudlin
['mɔːdlɪn] or ['mɔdlɪn]
Definition
(a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
(a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
(n.) Alt. of Maudeline
Typed by Claire
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Intoxicated, inebriated, fuddled, muddled, disguised, corned, tipsy, mellow, drunk, SLEWED, groggy, in liquor, HALF SEAS OVER.[2]. Silly, weak, childish.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intoxicated, temulent, sentimental, mawkish, mellow
ANT:Sensible, unromantic, unsentimental, dry, sober
Inputed by Lewis
Definition
adj. silly: sickly-sentimental: fuddled half-drunk: (obs.) tearful.—n. Maud′linism the tearful stage of drink.
Checker: Polly
Examples
- A man stumbled against him as he turned away, who mumbled some maudlin apology. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You were maudlin, Jos. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No maudlin weakness on your part shall save him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- You don't even know that a child was born of this maudlin pair; you don't even know that. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Checker: Polly