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hypersaccharine

hypersaccharine adjective: very saccharine; excessively sweet.

Adjective

hypersaccharine (comparative more hypersaccharine, superlative most hypersaccharine)

  1. (figuratively) Very saccharine; excessively sweet.
    • It’s some of the best plastic surgery this century. That or demonic possession: Surely age alone is insufficient to explain Rick(y) Schroder’s transformation from hypersaccharine sitcom munchkin to tough-talking adult of no more than average munchkinliness.1998 December 14, “Hey Rick, You’re So Fine, You Blow My Mind, Hey Rick”, in New York
    • The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation. On guitars, keyboards, percussion and electronics, the six instrumentalists also veer from moody industrial rock and elegiac synth drones to jittery, hypersaccharine pop.2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times

Forms of hypersaccharine

comparativemore hypersaccharine
superlativemost hypersaccharine

Origin of hypersaccharine

From hyper- + saccharine.

Questions about hypersaccharine

What does hypersaccharine mean?
Hypersaccharine means very saccharine; excessively sweet.
What part of speech is hypersaccharine?
Hypersaccharine is an adjective.

Words near hypersaccharine in the dictionary

  1. hyperrings
  2. hyperromantic
  3. hyperromanticism
  4. hyperrotate
  5. hypers
  6. hypersaccharine
  7. hypersalaemia
  8. hypersalience
  9. hypersalient
  10. hypersaline
  11. hypersalinities

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