🥣 Soft and pulpy 🥰 Overly emotional 🌫️ Vaguely

mushily

7.4

In a very emotional and sweet way

adverb
/ˈmʌʃɪli/

: sentimentalmente

He always talks mushily about his first love, making everyone smile.

Examples

The movie ended mushily, with the characters hugging and crying together.
Don't be so mushily sentimental about everything!
She wrote mushily in her diary about the beautiful sunset she saw.
She spoke mushily about her childhood memories.
She spoke mushily about her childhood memories, filled with nostalgia and affection.
The film ended on a mushily sentimental note that left many viewers teary-eyed.
He always writes mushily when he talks about his first love in his letters.

Synonyms

sentimentally

vsmushily

2 4.7

In a way that shows warm feelings about people or the past

is softer and leans toward gushy excess in feeling

cloyingly

vsmushily

1 8.4

In a way that is too sweet or too emotional to enjoy

is sentimental but softer and less likely to cause discomfort

mawkishly

vsmushily

9.9

In a very sad and fake way that feels too strong

is soft and sentimental without the sickly excess

drippily

vsmushily

9.2

In a way that is too emotional and shows too much feeling

is softer and less openly showy in feeling

Antonyms

rationally

56 3.9

In a clear, reasonable way based on facts

stoically

6 6.8

Act without showing pain or strong feelings when things are hard

How Sentimental

mawkishly

9.9

mushily

7.4

sentimentally

2 4.7

coolly

19 4.3

Surface Forms

mushily positive

Morphology

mushily = mushy (transparent) = mush + y + ly

This sense is the adverbial form of 'mushy' meaning 'overly sentimental', so the derivation is straightforward.

Etymology

Mushily comes from the same idea of mush as something 'soft', and a helpful way to remember the emotional sense is to think of a person becoming emotionally soft. So when someone speaks mushily, they are being 'soft-hearted' or overly sentimental.