All gushy synonyms
gush·y
G g adj gushy
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
- corny — If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- dewy-eyed — If you say that someone is dewy-eyed, you are criticizing them because you think that they are unrealistic and think events and situations are better than they really are.
- dreamy — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- idealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- inane — lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
- insipid — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- jejune — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
- languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
- loving — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- maudlin — tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
- mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- mushy — resembling mush; pulpy.
- nostalgic — experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation.
- gushing — to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- lovey-dovey — amorously affectionate: a lovey-dovey couple.