Definition for Cloying:

• overly sweet

Synonyms for Cloying:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • cloying.
  •boring (adjective)
  • drab,
  • characterless,
  • nowhere,
  • Weariful,
  • repetitious,
  • insipid,
  • lifeless,
  • ho hum,
  • well-worn,
  • unvaried,
  • dragger.
  •disgusting (adjective)
  • dis-gusting,
  • beastliest,
  • most sleazeball,
  • dis gusting,
  • scuzziest,
  • most surfeiting,
  • more sleazeball,
  • de testable,
  • more surfeiting,
  • more satiating,
  • scuzzier,
  • beastlier,
  • de-testable,
  • dis tasteful,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • nerdier,
  • most satiating,
  • yecchiest,
  • nerdiest,
  • objectionable,
  • shameless,
  • grodier,
  • yecchier,
  • yucky.
  •fulsome (adjective)
  • adulatory,
  • mealymouthed,
  • sycophantic,
  • fawning.
  •sickly (adjective)
  • in salubrious,
  • most bilious,
  • bilious,
  • in-salubrious,
  • more bilious,
  • un-wholesome.
  •sickly sweet (adjective)
  • corny,
  • honeyed,
  • drippy,
  • cornball,
  • gooey.
  •sweet (adjective)
  • like candy,
  • sweetest,
  • sweeter,
  • sugar-coated,
  • nectarous,
  • like honey,
  • candied,
  • sugared,
  • ambrosial,
  • dessert,
  • Sacchariferous,
  • candy-coated.
  •weariful (adjective)
  • drearest,
  • drearer.

• Other synonyms:

  •distasteful
  • icky.

Antonyms for Cloying:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    unsentimental, hard-boiled, sour, cynical, unadulterated, unvarnished, hardheaded.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    dry.

Cloying Sentence Examples:

• Truly I painted life in cloying colours; and always, when I accomplished gallant deeds, there stood Silver Heels to observe me, and to marvel, and to stamp her little moccasins in vexation that I, the pride and envy of all men, applauded, courted, nay, worshipped - I, the playmate she had in her silly ignorance flouted, now stood so far beyond her that she dared not twitch the skirt of my coat nor whisper, " Sir Michael, pray condescend to notice one who passes her entire life in admiring your careless exploits."