Usually means: Lacking subtlety, overly sentimental, clichéd.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word cheesy:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheesy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cheesy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheesy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheesy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheesy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cheesy, cheesy: Wordnik
  7. cheesy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cheesy: Wiktionary
  9. cheesy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cheesy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cheesy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cheesy: Dictionary.com
  13. cheesy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cheesy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cheesy (album), Cheesy (video game), Cheesy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cheesy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cheesy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cheesy: Rhymezone
  19. Cheesy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cheesy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cheesy: Free Dictionary
  22. cheesy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cheesy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Cheesy: The Word Detective
  25. cheesy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheesy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheesy: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheesy, cheesy, cheesy, cheesy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cheesy, cheesy (quaver): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. cheesy: ESL Slang page

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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▸ adjective:  Of or relating to cheese.
▸ adjective:  Resembling or containing cheese.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.
▸ adjective:  Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. (of a smile or grin)

Similar:
chintzy, bum, punk, crummy, tinny, sleazy, cheap, inferior, cheesey, caseic, more...

Opposite:
cool, hip, trendy, awesome, groovy

Phrases:
cheesy necrosis, cheesy sandwiches, affectionately cheesy, cheesy potatoes, cheesy and emotional, more...

Adjectives:
little, pretty, soft, white, old, thick, dear, characteristic, more, poor, somewhat


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Similar:
chintzy, bum, punk, crummy, tinny, sleazy, cheap, inferior, cheesey, caseic, more...

Opposite:
cool, hip, trendy, awesome, groovy

Phrases:
cheesy necrosis, cheesy sandwiches, affectionately cheesy, cheesy potatoes, cheesy and emotional, overdone and cheesy, cheesy lunchtime fare, cheesy taste, cheesy grin, opposite of cheesy, more...

Adjectives:
little, pretty, soft, white, old, thick, dear, characteristic, more, poor, somewhat



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