Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - saccharine
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Saccharine
saccharine
adjective Etymology: Latin saccharum Date: circa 1674 1. a. of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar ~ taste b. yielding or containing sugar ~ vegetables 2. overly or sickishly sweet ~ flavor 3. ingratiatingly or affectedly agreeable or friendly 4. overly sentimental ; mawkish a ~ love story • saccharinity noun
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1.
adj. 1 sugary. 2 of, containing, or like sugar. 3 unpleasantly over-polite, sentimental, etc. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. хим. сахарин 2. спец. сахарный; сахаристый saccharine disease —- сахарная болезнь, диабет 3. приторный saccharine poetry —- слащавые стихи a saccharine smile —- сладенькая улыбка ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
You describe something as saccharine when you find it unpleasantly sweet and sentimental. ...a saccharine sequel to the Peter Pan story... = sickly ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ adj formal too romantic in a way that seems silly and insincere (a saccharine love story) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1674, from M.L. saccharum "sugar," from L. saccharon, from Gk. sakkharon, from Pali sakkhara, from Skt. sarkara "gravel, grit" (see sugar). Originally "of or like sugar," metaphoric sense of "overly sweet" first recorded early 1840s. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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