cloying

cloying

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪɪŋ

Verb

cloying

1. present participle of cloy

Adjective

cloying (comparative more cloying, superlative most cloying)

1. Unpleasantly excessive.

   The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.

   • August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk:

     It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.

2. Excessively sweet.

Synonyms

• (unpleasantly excessive): exaggerated
• (excessively sweet): syrupy, treacly, oversweet

Derived terms

• cloyingly

Translations

unpleasantly excessive

Dutch: buitenissig (nl), excessief (nl) Finnish: imelä (fi) German: übertrieben (de)

Italian: stucchevole (it) Russian: слаща́вый (ru) (slaščávyj) Spanish: empalagoso (es) m

excessively sweet

Dutch: zeemzout, stroperig (nl) Finnish: imelä (fi), äitelä (fi) German: süßlich (de), rührselig (de), gefühlsduselig Irish: rómhilis

Italian: sdolcinato (it), stucchevole (it) Japanese: 甘ったるい (あまったるい, amattarui) Russian: слаща́вый (ru) (slaščávyj), при́торный (ru) (prítornyj) Swedish: sliskig