ALL meanings of cloying
cloy·ing
C c - adjective cloying You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. 3
- adjective cloying initially pleasurable or sweet but wearying in excess 3
- abbreviation CLOYING cloy 3
- adjective cloying displeasing or distasteful because of excess 3
- adjective cloying overly sweet, sentimental, etc. 3
- noun cloying Present participle of cloy. 1
- adjective cloying taste, smell: too sweet 1
- adjective cloying too sentimental 1
- adjective cloying causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness. 1
- adjective cloying overly ingratiating or sentimental. 1
- verb with object cloying to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. 1
- verb without object cloying to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. 1
- adjective cloying Unpleasantly excessive. 0
- adjective cloying Excessively sweet. 0