Definition of MAUDLIN

maudlin

Meanings

Plural: maudlins

Adjective Satellite

  • effusively or insincerely emotional
    • "maudlin expressions of sympathy"

Noun

  • The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.
  • Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow.
  • A Magdalene house; a brothel.

Adj

  • Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
  • Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
  • Tearful, lachrymose.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English Maudelen, a dialectal form of Mary Magdalene (typically depicted weeping), from Old French Madelaine (whence Madeleine), from Late Latin Magdalena (see Magdalena, Magdalene, and Maudlin).

Synonyms

a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bathetic, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitheless, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bummed out, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crestfallen, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, cut up, damp, dead drunk, dejected, depressed, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, disgruntled, disguised, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drippy, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, dull, ebriated, ebriose, elegiac, elegious, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, emotional, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, forlorn, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, gloomy, glorious, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, hokey, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inconsolable, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infelicitous, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, jawfallen, joyless, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, kitschy, lachrymose, lamentful, lamped, langered, langers, larmoyant, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, low, low-spirited, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lugubrious, lumpish, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, mawkish, medicated, melancholic, melancholy, messed up, miserable, monged, moody, mopey, morose, mortal, mortalled, mournful, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, mushy, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, overwrought, paralytic, parlatic, passionate, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plaintful, plaintive, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, querulous, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sad, saddened, sappy, saturnine, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schmaltzy, schmalzy, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sentimental, sewed up, shattered, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, slushy, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, solemn, sombre, soppy, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soupy, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, spiritless, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, sullen, swacked, tanked, tanked up, teary, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, threnetic, threnetical, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, triste, tristful, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, weepy, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, wistful, withered, wobbly, woe, woebegone, woeful, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, wretched, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Scrabble Score: 10

maudlin is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
maudlin is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
maudlin is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

maudlin is a valid Words With Friends word