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hokey
Overview of adj hokey
The adj hokey has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy -- (effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry")
2. artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted -- (artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation")
Grep of noun hokey
chokey
Antonyms of adj hokey
2 senses of hokey
Sense 1
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
INDIRECT (VIA emotional) -> unemotional
Sense 2
artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
INDIRECT (VIA affected) -> unaffected
Similarity of adj hokey
2 senses of hokey
Sense 1
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
=> emotional (vs. unemotional)
Sense 2
artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
=> affected (vs. unaffected), unnatural
Pertainyms of adj hokey
Attributes of adj hokey
Domain of adj hokey
Domain Terms of adj hokey
Familiarity of adj hokey
hokey used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj hokey
hokey
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