saccharine
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.
Origin of saccharine
1Other words from saccharine
- sac·cha·rine·ly, adverb
- sac·cha·rin·i·ty [sak-uh-rin-i-tee], /ˌsæk əˈrɪn ɪ ti/, noun
- non·sac·cha·rine, adjective, noun
- non·sac·cha·rin·i·ty, noun
- un·sac·cha·rine, adjective
Words that may be confused with saccharine
- saccharin, saccharine
Words Nearby saccharine
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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 BeastThe 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 PostWhat 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 | TimeCalled 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 | TechCrunchAfter 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.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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 AlcottThe 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 AlcottThe saccharine fluid produced by the mother must be, then, a sort of milk intended for the nourishment of her young.
The Insect World | Louis FiguierYellowish white flesh, crisp and beautiful flavor, from a mingling of the acid and saccharine.
Soil Culture | J. H. WaldenAgain—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
/ (ˈsækəˌraɪn, -ˌriːn) /
excessively sweet; sugary: a saccharine smile
of, relating to, of the nature of, or containing sugar or saccharin
Derived forms of saccharine
- saccharinely, adverb
- saccharinity (ˌsækəˈrɪnɪtɪ), noun
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