Cloy : 물리다, 질리다, (친절/사랑 등 감정에 있어) 질리다, 지나치다
Cloying : 질릴정도인, 지나치게 감상적인, 역겨울 정도인
Cloyingly : 싫증나게, 넌더리나게
Cloyingness : 싫증나게 함 , 물리게 함
1)
if something cloys, it means you've had too much of a good thing
someething may be really nice at first and really enjoyable but you get more and more and more of it, it eventually the pleasure begins to cloy
something that begins to cause distaste or disgust because there's just too much of it
it's very nice to eat a piece of chocolatae or two pieces of chocolate but how many kilos of chocolate could you eat after about the tenth bit, it begins to cloy
over the top, sickening
to fill up
a glut of something
to over satisfy the appetite
a surfeit
2)
very often, we have the collocation somoething that is colyingly sweet. it's incredibly sweet
it's just too much, it goes over the top
a perfume can be very nice in small quantities but if the whole place is filled with this cloying scent, it's just too much and it's just too strong
if something cloy, there is just to much in it, it's just too intense
3)
we can also use this about emotions, particularly love and kindness
the film was very sweet and loving to begin with but it started to be annoying, because it just became cloyingly sentimental
you've just got fed up with it because there was too much of it and it stopped seeing real
these romance novel that I have, they can be colyingly full of scenes and the deepest love.
it's so cloying, it's saying over emotional gonig too far with the emotion
it's nauseating
it's mushy
if something is cloying, it goes over the top
it's very nice when peoople are kind to you but if they start tying to wait on you hand and food and to do absolutely everything that you want, then can start to become cloying
there's too much of it
it becomes a bit nauseating
it's over the top, excessive
generosity is good but cloying generosity, it's a question of knowing when to stop
something that cloys, it disgusts, it sickens you
it just goes over the top
it goes just too far
an excess of something that was originally pleasing
their protestations of love were just cloying, they went too far
an excessive pleasure or an excess of something can be cloying
cloyingly sentimental
Formality : 6 - 6.5
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