cornier

Adjective

corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)

1. Boring and unoriginal.
   • The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.

   Synonyms:

   humdrum, tedious, uninteresting, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland

2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
   • The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.

   Synonyms:

   banal, clichéd, kitschy, tacky, cheesy, schmaltzy, bathetic, bromidic, stock, commonplace

3. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Uncool, stupid, lame.
   • Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 221

   Synonyms:

   lousy, peak, wack, cringe, cheugy, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic

4. (rare) Containing corn.
   • Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.2012, Marlene Koch, Eat More of What You Love, Running Press, →ISBN
5. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
   • The corny ear.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
6. (UK, obsolete, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
   • Yen day when aw was corney.1850, Joseph Philip Robson, France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne

   Synonyms:

   drunkish, squiffy, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken

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