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sac·cha·rine

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–adjective

1.	of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.

2.	containing or yielding sugar.

3.	very sweet to the taste; sugary: a saccharine dessert.

4.	cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating: a saccharine personality.

5.	exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental: a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of undying love.

[Origin: 1665–75; sacchar- + -ine¹

]

—Related forms

sac·cha·rine·ly, adverb

sac·cha·rin·i·ty

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sac·cha·rine Audio Help (sāk'ər-ĭn, -ə-rēn', -ə-rīn') Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet.
Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character: a saccharine smile.
Excessively sentimental: "It was enough for him to rely on sentiment . . . and saccharine assertions about The Home" (Kate Millett).

sac'cha·rine·ly adv., sac'cha·rin'i·ty (-ə-rĭn'ĭ-tē) n.

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saccharine

1674, "of or like sugar," from M.L. saccharum "sugar," from L. saccharon, from Gk. sakkharon, from Pali sakkhara, from Skt. sarkara "gravel, grit" (see sugar). Metaphoric sense of "overly sweet" first recorded 1841.

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saccharine
adjective
overly sweet [syn: cloying]

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Saccharine

Sac"cha*rine\ (? or ?), a. [F. saccharin, fr. L. saccharon sugar, Gr. ?, ?, ?, Skr. [,c]arkara. Cf. Sugar.] Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

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Saccharine

Sac"cha*rine\ (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [Written also saccharin.]

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