saccharine
pronunciation
How to pronounce saccharine in British English:
UK [ˈsækəri:n]
How to pronounce saccharine in American English:
US [ˈsækərɪn, -əˌrin, -əˌraɪn]
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- Adjective:
- overly sweet
Word Origin
- saccharine (adj.)
- 1670s, "of or like sugar," from Medieval Latin saccharum "sugar," from Latin saccharon "sugar," from Greek sakkharon, from Pali sakkhara, from Sanskrit sarkara "gravel, grit" (see sugar). Metaphoric sense of "overly sweet" first recorded 1841. For the sugar substitute, see saccharin.
Example
- 1. Yet to have such saccharine tendencies at the start of the 19th century was politically tricky .
- 2. He had brought an envelope full of victory coffee and some saccharine tablets .
- 3. After-image the bitter aftertaste sometimes caused by saccharine .
- 4. The authors trained rats to avoid both saccharine and salty liquids over the course of three days , and then injected the virus a week after the last training .
- 5. In december the environmental protection agency took saccharine , an artificial sweetener , off its list of hazardous materials-more than a decade after scientists had concluded it was not carcinogenic after all .