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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.
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Saccharine
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Example Sentences
- There's force in her voice, but mostly she avoids it, preferring the saccharine.
- There is an element of truth to this saccharine self-image.
- Tab had saccharine then, and the bitter taste was almost as tongue-numbing as szechuan peppercorns.
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Word Origin & History
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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Medical Dictionary
saccharine sac·cha·rine (sāk'ər-ĭn, -ə-rēn', -ə-rīn')
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet.
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