mealy
The word “mealy” has 2 syllables: meal-y
It's pronounced as /ˈmiː.li/
What is synonym and antonym for mealy?
In the thesaurus, “mealy” has 85 synonyms and 28 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for mealy along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for mealy
- Janus-faced
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- anemic
- artificial
- ashen
- ashy
- assumed
- backhanded
- blanched
- bloodless
- bogus
- cadaverous
- campy
- canting
- claptrap
- contrived
- counterfeit
- crumbly
- deceitful
- devious
- dishonest
- double
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- doughy
- empty
- facetious
- facile
- fake
- false
- farinaceous
- feigned
- forced
- friable
- glib
- grainy
- gritty
- hollow
- hypocritical
- insincere
- jive
- jocular
- left-handed
- lip
- livid
- lurid
- mealymouthed
- meaningless
- mechanical
- pale
- paled
- pallid
- pasty
- peaked
- pharisaical
- phony
- phony-baloney
- pious
- pretended
- put-on
- sallow
- sallowish
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- sham
- sick
- sickly
- simon-pure
- simulated
- strained
- superficial
- tongue-in-cheek
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- untanned
- untruthful
- wan
- waxen
- waxy
- whey-faced
- white
- white-faced
- whitened
Antonyms for mealy
- artless
- blooming
- blushing
- candid
- direct
- florid
- flush
- flushed
- forthright
- frank
- full-blooded
- genuine
- glowing
- heart-to-heart
- heartfelt
- honest
- open
- pink
- plain
- red
- rosy
- rubicund
- ruddy
- sanguine
- sincere
- straightforward
- undesigning
- unfeigned
Meanings of mealy
- adjective
- Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
Example Sentences
- The apples had a mealy texture and weren’t very fresh.
- Overcooked potatoes can become dry and mealy.
- He avoided the mealy fruit at the market.
- The bread turned mealy after sitting out too long.
- The chef rejected the batch because it tasted mealy.
On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to mealy, such as: Janus-faced, Pecksniffian, affected, anemic, artificial, artless, ashen.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
backhanded
- Janus-faced
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- ambiguous
- artificial
- assumed
- bogus
- campy
- canting
- claptrap
- contrived
- counterfeit
- deceitful
- devious
- dishonest
- double
- double-dealing
- double-edged
- double-faced
- empty
- equivocal
- facetious
- facile
- fake
- false
- feigned
- forced
- glib
- hollow
- hypocritical
- insincere
- jive
- jocular
- left-handed
- lip
- mealy
- mealymouthed
- meaningless
- mechanical
- pharisaical
- phoney
- phoney-baloney
- phony
- phony-baloney
- pious
- pretended
- put-on
- sanctimonious
- sarcastic
- sardonic
- self-righteous
- sham
- simon-pure
- simulated
- strained
- superficial
- tongue-in-cheek
- two-edged
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- untruthful
cadaverous
- anemic
- ashen
- ashy
- bag of bones
- blanched
- bloodless
- boney
- bony
- consumptive
- dead
- deathlike
- deathly
- doughy
- emaciated
- exsanguinous
- famished
- gaunt
- ghastly
- ghostly
- haggard
- hungry
- lank
- lanky
- livid
- lurid
- mealy
- pale
- paled
- pallid
- pasty
- peaked
- peaky
- rawboned
- sallow
- sallowish
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadowy
- shriveled
- shrivelled
- sick
- sickly
- sinewy
- skeletal
- skeletonlike
- skin and bones
- skinny
- spare
- spectral
- starved
- starving
- thin
- underfed
- undernourished
- untanned
- wan
- wasted
- waxen
- waxy
- whey-faced
- white
- white-faced
- whitened
- withered
- wizened
factitious
- adulterated
- affected
- artful
- artificial
- assumed
- automatic
- bogus
- brummagem
- calculated
- canned
- concocted
- conscious
- contrived
- conventional
- counterfeit
- cultivated
- cultured
- cute
- cutesy
- deceptive
- deliberate
- designer
- doctored
- double-dealing
- dummy
- empty
- engineered
- ersatz
- exaggerated
- fabricated
- facile
- fake
- false
- faux
- feigned
- forced
- forged
- formal
- fraudulent
- fudged
- genteel
- goody-goody
- histrionic
- hokey
- hollow
- hypocritical
- imitation
- imitative
- impersonal
- inflexible
- insincere
- juggled
- labored
- left-handed
- man-made
- manipulated
- manufactured
- mealy
- mealymouthed
- mechanical
- melodramatic
- mimic
- mincing
- misleading
- mock
- overacted
- overdone
- overrefined
- pat
- phoney
- phony
- pinchbeck
- plastic
- premeditated
- pretend
- pretended
- process
- pseudo
- put-on
- rigid
- sham
- simpering
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- strained
- studied
- stylized
- substitute
- synthetic
- theatric
- theatrical
- two-faced
- unauthentic
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreal
- unrealistic
- wooden
Janus-faced
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- artificial
- assumed
- backhanded
- bogus
- campy
- canting
- claptrap
- contrived
- counterfeit
- deceitful
- devious
- dishonest
- double
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- empty
- facetious
- facile
- fake
- false
- feigned
- forced
- glib
- hollow
- hypocritical
- insincere
- jive
- jocular
- left-handed
- lip
- mealy
- mealymouthed
- meaningless
- mechanical
- pharisaical
- phoney
- phoney-baloney
- phony
- phony-baloney
- pious
- pretended
- put-on
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- sham
- simon-pure
- simulated
- strained
- superficial
- tongue-in-cheek
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- untruthful
labored
- affected
- arduous
- artful
- artificial
- assumed
- attacked
- automatic
- awkward
- banged away
- bogus
- calculated
- canned
- clumsy
- concocted
- conscious
- contrived
- conventional
- cultivated
- cute
- cutesy
- deliberate
- double-dealing
- drove
- drudged
- dug in
- effortful
- eked out
- empty
- endeavored
- essayed
- exaggerated
- exercised
- exerted
- fabricated
- facile
- factitious
- fagged
- fake
- false
- feigned
- forced
- formal
- genteel
- goody-goody
- grubbed
- hard
- heavy
- histrionic
- hokey
- hollow
- humped
- hustled
- hypocritical
- impersonal
- inept
- inflexible
- insincere
- knuckled down
- left-handed
- maladroit
- manufactured
- mealy
- mealymouthed
- mechanical
- melodramatic
- mincing
- mock
- moiled
- operose
- overacted
- overdone
- overexerted
- overrefined
- overworked
- overwrought
- pat
- phoney
- phony
- pitched in
- plastic
- plodded
- plowed
- plugged
- ponderous
- premeditated
- pretended
- pseudo
- put out
- put-on
- rigid
- scrabbled
- scratched
- sham
- simpering
- simulated
- slaved
- slogged
- spurious
- stiff
- strained
- strenuous
- strived
- strove
- struggled
- studied
- stylized
- sweat
- sweat blood
- sweated
- sweated blood
- theatric
- theatrical
- toiled
- toilsome
- travailed
- tried
- trudged
- tugged
- two-faced
- unauthentic
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreal
- unrealistic
- uphill
- waded
- weighty
- wooden
- worked
- wrought