CLOYING

Meaning of CLOYING in English

adjective disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.

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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 — [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 cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. Her …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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, …
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CLOYING — надоедливый
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CLOYING — Пресыщения
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CLOYING — Пресыщение
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CLOYING — Надоедливый
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CLOYING — cloying.ogg ʹklɔııŋ a надоедливый
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CLOYING — (a) надоедливый
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
CLOYING — a надоедливый
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
CLOYING — a надоедливый
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CLOYING — надоедливый
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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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