CLOYING

Meaning of CLOYING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ klɔɪɪŋ ]

You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.

Her cheap, cloying scent enveloped him...

ADJ

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне. 2006

CLOYING — adjective Date: 1594 disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess , ~ly adverb
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CLOYING — ˈklȯi.iŋ adjective : having an excess of a quality (as sweetness or sentimentality) to the point of arousing distaste or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLOYING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloy
Английский словарь Webster
CLOYING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Cloy
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CLOYING — — cloyingly , adv. /kloy"ing/ , adj. 1. causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CLOYING — adjective Date: 1594 : disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess cloying sweetness also : excessively sweet or sentimental a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CLOYING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of cloy.
Webster English vocab
CLOYING — adjective disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. → cloy
Concise Oxford English vocab
CLOYING — [cloy.ing] adj (1594): disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess "~ sweetness"; also: excessively sweet or sentimental "a ~ romantic …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CLOYING — / ˈklɔɪɪŋ; NAmE / adjective ( formal ) 1. ( of food, a smell, etc. ) so sweet that it …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLOYING — cloy ‧ ing /ˈklɔɪ-ɪŋ/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Origin: cloy 'to be cloying' (16-21 centuries) , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CLOYING — You use ~ to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. Her …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CLOYING — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the cloying smell of cheap perfume ▪ The novel's plot is interesting, but the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CLOYING — [adjective] [literary] - too sweet and therefore unpleasant, or (figurative) too good or kind or expressing feelings of love in …
Cambridge English vocab
CLOYING — Synonyms and related words : bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloysome, fetid, filling, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, jading, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CLOYING — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
CLOYING — adj. Cloying is used with these nouns: ↑ sweetness
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CLOYING — n. 25B6; adjective SICKLY, syrupy, saccharine, oversweet; sickening, nauseating; mushy, slushy, sloppy; mawkish, sentimental; Brit. twee; informal over the top, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CLOYING — надоедливый
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — Пресыщения
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — Пресыщение
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — Надоедливый
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — cloying.ogg ʹklɔııŋ a надоедливый
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CLOYING — (a) надоедливый
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
CLOYING — a надоедливый
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
CLOYING — a надоедливый
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — надоедливый
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — пресыщать приторный
Англо-Русский словарь
CLOYING — n. Pronunciation: ' klo ̇ i-i ŋ , ' klo ̇ i ŋ Function: adjective Date: 1594 : disgusting or …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SWEET
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SUGARY — sug ‧ ar ‧ y /ˈʃʊɡəri/ BrE AmE adjective 1 . containing sugar, or tasting like sugar: sugary foods 2 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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