maudlin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite effusively or insincerely emotional
    sentimental; schmalzy; bathetic; mushy; soppy; kitschy; hokey; slushy; soupy; schmaltzy; mawkish; drippy.
    • a bathetic novel
    • maudlin expressions of sympathy
    • mushy effusiveness
    • a schmaltzy song
    • sentimental soap operas
    • slushy poetry

WordNet

Maud"lin adjective
Etymology
From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.
Definitions
  1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd." Southey.
  2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
    Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.
Maud"lin, Maude"line noun (Also<
  • Maudlin
  • Maudeline
)
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Webster 1913