saccharine

[ sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn ]

/ ˈsæk ər ɪn, -əˌrin, -əˌraɪn /

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adjective

of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.

containing or yielding sugar.

very sweet to the taste; sugary: a saccharine dessert.

cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating: a saccharine personality.

exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental: a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of undying love.

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Origin of saccharine

First recorded in 1665–75; sacchar- + -ine¹

OTHER WORDS FROM saccharine

sac·cha·rine·ly, adverbsac·cha·rin·i·ty

[sak-uh-rin-i-tee], /ˌsæk əˈrɪn ɪ ti/, nounnon·sac·cha·rine, adjective, nounnon·sac·cha·rin·i·ty, noun

un·sac·cha·rine, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH saccharine

saccharin, saccharine

Words nearby saccharine

sacchariferous, saccharify, saccharimeter, saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharine, saccharize, saccharo-, saccharofarinaceous, saccharoid, saccharolactic acid

How to use saccharine in a sentence

Especially now that Ted has charmed all the characters who used to be his foils, the tension-less lovefest has veered from sweet to saccharine.
Why Does Everybody Hate ‘Ted Lasso’ All of a Sudden?|Kevin Fallon|August 27, 2021|The Daily Beast
The term “family” has come to mean “for kids,” which has come to signify something trite, manipulative and saccharine.
Audiences love family films. Hollywood might be catching on.|Ann Hornaday|May 7, 2021|Washington Post
What they came up with instead is a modest, lighthearted, comfortingly familiar show that feels more current and less saccharine than most similar Disney titles.
Big Shot Is a Surprisingly Lovable Sports Drama From Franchise-Crazy Disney+|Judy Berman|April 16, 2021|Time
Called saccharine, it was popularized initially during sugar shortages caused by the first World War and gained traction during the health crazes of the sixties and seventies.
Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?|Jonathan Shieber|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch

After the cyclamate ban, Tab was forced to reformulate and ended up deciding to use saccharine as its primary sweetener.
The Rise And Fall Of Tab – After Surviving The Sweetener Scares, The Iconic Diet Soda Gets Canned|LGBTQ-Editor|November 29, 2020|No Straight News
This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
The Top 10 Nontraditional Christmas TV Episodes|Jace Lacob|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions.
Young Adult Novel Adaptations Put Mainstream Blockbusters to Shame|Amy Zimmerman|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline.
You Really Don't Want to Watch Fox’s ‘I Wanna Marry “Harry”’|Jason Lynch|May 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better.
The Secret Pope Francis Haters|Barbie Latza Nadeau|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto|The Telegraph|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In this case the skin is often removed, that the saccharine matter may the better penetrate the body of the apple.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages|William Andrus Alcott
The bread thus retains its sweetness—no waste of its saccharine matter, and no residuum except muriate of soda or common salt.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages|William Andrus Alcott
The saccharine fluid produced by the mother must be, then, a sort of milk intended for the nourishment of her young.
The Insect World|Louis Figuier
Yellowish white flesh, crisp and beautiful flavor, from a mingling of the acid and saccharine.
Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
Again—a picture of a child, in a halo of innocence, praying at a paternal knee to a fresco of saccharine angels!
Cytherea|Joseph Hergesheimer

British Dictionary definitions for saccharine

saccharine

/ (ˈsækəˌraɪn, -ˌriːn) /

adjective

excessively sweet; sugarya saccharine smile

of, relating to, of the nature of, or containing sugar or saccharin

Derived forms of saccharine

saccharinely, adverbsaccharinity (ˌsækəˈrɪnɪtɪ), noun

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British Dictionary definitions for saccharine

Derived forms of saccharine