Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling mush in consistency; soft.
- adj. Informal Excessively sentimental. See Synonyms at sentimental.
- adj. Informal Given to or displaying mawkish affection or amorousness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like mush; soft; pulpy; without fiber or firmness.
Wiktionary
- adj. resembling or having the consistency of mush; semi-liquid, pasty, or granular
- adj. soft; squishy
- adj. overly sappy, corny, or cheesy
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the consistency of mush
- adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
Examples
“Most people are in the mushy middle, and we call it mushy middle for a reason.”
ProWomanProLife » Quebec doctors overwhelmingly favour legalizing euthanasia
“No, what I said was that you were engaging in mushy thinking," Thing One said, pointing to a passage marked with yellow highlighter.”
The Huffington Post: Alan Gottlieb: Of Civil Wars and Forgotten Words
“He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.”
“It’s taken me some time to get use to the large grain mushy rice they use.”
“The second container was a bowl with noodles (in this particular soup - Vietnamese rice noodles), which insured that your noodles don’t end up mushy from the walk back to the office.”
“They were unfazed by the preponderance of same-sex couples holding hands, and all smooching was "disgusting" or "mushy" -- regardless of the gender of the "old people" (anyone over 22) doing the osculating.”
The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: Gay Catholic Ministry and Straight Pride
“Sorry, but I think the mushy middle is called mushy for a reason.”
“The position on abortion is what some people call the mushy middle.”
“There's a reason they've been called mushy, not mighty - a description Mr. Colle and his allies aim to change.”
“Hours after being called "mushy on environmental issues" by a Republican senator”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mushy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
toughness, furnace, vibration, bronze, modulus, tubing, flow, zinc, melting, porta, embrittle, wetting and 262 more...
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Figuratively
Words with definitions containing "figuratively."
spore, plunge, fulminate, rasp, hinge, niche, breathe, approach, hammer, rain, butcher, dazzle and 132 more...
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Adjectives 2
Conditions
better, alive, important, wrong, vast, tender, shy, rich, mushy, odd, helpful, gifted and 8 more...
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mariposa417's Words
cerulean, jewel, malfeasance, precipice, crossroads, beautiful, adore, sublime, superfluous, poppy, monarch, lashes and 101 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Words from 2009 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' film.
ravishing, juggle, rehearsal, in bulk, hoard, miser, detract, appendage, ordain, slick, scent, innuendo and 68 more...
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waltzingmatilda's Words
enhance, entropy, lethalize, splinter, glee, glimpse, acid, mellow, mushy, cozy, cuddle, comfy and 9 more...
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Words I just don't like at all . . .
discharge, moist, coax, chastity, buggery, onomatopoeia, mushy, idyllic, pus, thwarted, smear, pithy and 19 more...
Tweets
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dailyword Giles said that he liked his peas like this. Jun 15, 2012
bilby You're welcome to list breakfast cereals on this list. Jun 26, 2008
jennarenn What breakfast cereals should not be. Jun 26, 2008