All cornball synonyms
cornΒ·ball
C c adjective cornball
adj cornball
- blah β You use blah, blah, blah to refer to something that is said or written without giving the actual words, because you think that they are boring or unimportant.
- common β If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.
- conventional β Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal.
- flat β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- hokey β overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive! Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
- humdrum β lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
- insipid β without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- nothing β no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- old hat β old-fashioned; dated.
- ordinary β of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- pabulum β something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- pedestrian β a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- square β a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stale β not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stereotyped β reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
- stock β a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- tired β having a tire or tires.
- tripe β the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- unimaginative β characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- unoriginal β belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- watery β pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
- wishy-washy β lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
- zero β the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- bromidic β ordinary; dull
- cliched β If you describe something as clichΓ©d, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- platitudinous β characterized by or given to platitudes.
- cornfed β fed on corn
- dull as dishwater β water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- noplace β nowhere.
- nowhere β in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- cheesy β Cheesy food is food that tastes or smells of cheese.
- mushy β resembling mush; pulpy.
- drippy β dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet.
- cutesy β If you describe someone or something as cutesy, you dislike them because you think they are unpleasantly pretty and sentimental.
- over-sentimental β expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- oversweet β having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- befuddled β confused, muddled, perplexed
- confused β If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- lachrymose β suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- slush β partly melted snow.
- soap β a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- soapy β containing or impregnated with soap: soapy water.
- tearful β full of tears; weeping.
- weak β not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- bathetic β containing or displaying bathos
- schmaltzy β of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- soppy β soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
- gushing β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.