mawkishly

1. 1.

   in a mawkish and emotional manner

   “the violinist played that piece mawkishly”

   Synonymsdrippily

Questions about mawkishly

What does mawkishly mean?

mawkishly means "in a mawkish and emotional manner".

How many syllables are in mawkishly?

mawkishly has 3 syllables and divides as maw-kish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mawkishly?

Close synonyms include drippily. 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 mawkishly a common word?

mawkishly 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.