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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -mawkish-, *mawkish*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
mawkish(adj) จืดชืด, See also: ไม่มีรสชาติ, เอียน, Syn. tasteless
mawkishly(adv) อย่างจืดชืด
mawkishness(n) ความจืดชืด

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
mawkish(มอ'คิช) adj. จืดชืด, ไร้ชีวิตชีวา, ละห้อยและไม่สบาย, โศกเศร้า., See also: mawkishly adv. mawkishness n., Syn. insipid

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
mawkish(adj) น่ารังเกียจ, น่าหมั่นไส้, น่าคลื่นไส้, ไม่มีชีวิตชีวา, จืดชืด

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
mawkish

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
mawkish
mawkishly
mawkishness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See {Mawk}.]
     1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
        nauseating; disgusting.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
        --J. H. Newman.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mawkish
      adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
             "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
             "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
             poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
             {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
             {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]

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