mawkish

Other forms of mawkish

comparative

mawkisher·

superlative

mawkishest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mawkish

What does mawkish mean?

mawkish means "effusively or insincerely emotional".

How many syllables are in mawkish?

mawkish has 2 syllables: maw-kish. The stress falls on "maw". In IPA it is /ˈmɔkɪʃ/.

What is another word for mawkish?

Close synonyms include bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, kitschy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mawkish a common word?

mawkish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.