chocolate-box
chocolate–box
adjDefinition of CHOCOLATE-BOX
: superficially pretty or sentimental
See Origin of CHOCOLATE-BOX
from the pictures formerly commonly seen on boxes of chocolates
First Known Use: 1901
Related to CHOCOLATE-BOX
Synonyms: chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
Antonyms: unsentimental
Related Words: dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed; feel-good, fuzzy; melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy; flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery; cutesy, twee [chiefly British]
Near Antonyms: unadulterated, unvarnished; antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded
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