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

Related forms

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

Can be confusedsaccharin saccharine

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Examples from the Web for saccharine

This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
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What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions.
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The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline.
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Instead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better.
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His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
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The peculiar change by which saccharine matter is converted into lactic acid.
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If the berries be over-ripe, then the saccharine prevails, and there is a deficiency of tartaric acid.
Gatherings From Spain|Richard Ford
At preserving time people are given extra sugar and saccharine on the grocery card.
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The fermentation is effected with yeast, which, acting on the saccharine matter, disengages carbonic acid gas.
Popular Technology, Vol. I (of 2)|Edward Hazen
As is the case with the saccharine juices of other plants, the sugar from sorghum crystallizes best at medium temperature.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888|Various

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 Formssaccharinely, adverbsaccharinity (ˌsækəˈrɪnɪtɪ), noun

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Word Origin and History for saccharine

saccharine

adj.

1670s, "of or like sugar," from Medieval Latin saccharum "sugar," from Latin saccharon "sugar," from Greek sakkharon, from Pali sakkhara, from Sanskrit sarkara "gravel, grit" (see sugar). Metaphoric sense of "overly sweet" first recorded 1841. For the sugar substitute, see saccharin.

Medicine definitions for saccharine

saccharine

[ săk′ər-ĭn, -ə-rēn′, -ə-rīn′ ]

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet.

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