cloyed

Too much sweetness

Cloyed is the past tense of cloy, meaning to disgust or sicken through excess of something originally pleasant.

Too much sweetness cloys the palate; too much flattery cloys the spirit.

The word suggests surfeit—pleasure that has tipped into revulsion: After a week of rich desserts, I was thoroughly cloyed.

satiated

stuffed

Filled beyond capacity

sated · satisfied · replete · overfed · bloated · engorged · filled · gratified · content · surfeited

weariness

bored

Lacking interest or engagement

fatigued · exhausted · dulled · numbed · desensitized · indifferent · apathetic · unimpressed · ennui · listless

sweetness

saccharine

Exaggeratedly sentimental

  • syrupyExcessively sweet or sentimental
  • sugaryContaining much sweetener
  • treaclyExcessively sweet or sentimental

honeyed · sickly-sweet · mawkish · overripe · candy-coated · confectionery · sugared · candied

disgust

nauseated

Feeling urge to vomit

revolted · bilious · dyspeptic · fed-up · jaded

excess

surfeit

Excessive quantity, often cloying

satiation · overabundance · oversupply · superfluous · redundancy · overkill · overflow · surplus · plethora · overdose

Opposites
satiation/desire

cloyedhungry

Wanting to eat

craving · wanting · yearning · greedy · desirous

freshness of appetite

cloyedrefreshed

Restored to vigor

unsated · keen · whetted · stimulated · tantalized

Family

cloy, cloying, cloyingly, cloys

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G