saccharine
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of or relating to sugar; sugary.
- Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.
- Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
- Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
- Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).
Noun
- Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
- Sentimentalism.
- Alternative spelling of saccharin.
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