saccharine

Meanings

Plural: saccharines

Adjective Satellite

overly sweet

Adj

Of or relating to sugar; sugary.
Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.
Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).

Noun

Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
Sentimentalism.
Alternative spelling of saccharin.

Origin / Etymology

From New Latin saccharum (“sugar”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Saccharum is derived from saccharon (“syrupy liquid from bamboo or reeds”), from Ancient Greek σάκχαρον (sákkharon), from Pali sakkharā (“sugar; gravel; granule, grain; crystal; potsherd”), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar; cotton sugar, sugarmaple; gravel, grit, pebbles; potsherd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“boulder; gravel”).

Synonyms

cloying, precious, saccharined, saccharous, sickly, sickly sweet, syrupy, treacly, twee

Antonyms

nonsaccharine

Scrabble Score: 17

saccharine is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
saccharine is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
saccharine is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

saccharine is a valid Words With Friends word