CHEESY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CHEESY?

Need another word that means the same as “cheesy”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “cheesy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Cheesy” are: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny, banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, well worn

Cheesy as an Adjective

Definitions of "Cheesy" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cheesy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency.
• Hackneyed and obviously sentimental.
• Of very poor quality; flimsy.
• Cheap and of low quality.
• (of a smile) exaggerated and likely to be insincere.

Synonyms of "Cheesy" as an adjective (25 Words)

banal	So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Songs with banal repeated words.
cheap	Charging low prices. A cheap restaurant.
chintzy	Of, like, or decorated with chintz. A chintzy salary increase.
clichéd	Repeated regularly without thought or originality.
commonplace	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Unemployment was commonplace in his trade.
crummy	Unwell. A crummy little room.
fatuous	Extremely silly or stupid. A fatuous comment.
feeble	Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. A feeble old woman.
hackneyed	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Hackneyed old sayings.
inane	Extremely silly or stupid. Don t badger people with inane questions.
jejune	Of insufficient quantity to meet a need. Their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions.
overworked	Used to excess. Overworked nurses do not have time to adequately prepare patients for discharge.
platitudinous	(of a remark or statement) used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; hackneyed. This may sound platitudinous.
predictable	Able to be predicted. The market is volatile and never predictable.
punk	Relating to punk rock and its associated subculture. I felt too punk to eat.
stale	(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry. A top executive tends to get stale.
stereotyped	Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality. The film is weakened by its stereotyped characters.
tinny	Having an unpleasantly metallic taste. Tinny music played in the background.
tired	Depleted of strength or energy. A few boxes of tired vegetables.
trite	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. His remarks were trite and commonplace.
vapid	Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland. A vapid smile.
weak	Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. The central government had grown too weak to impose order.
well worn	Wise or advantageous and hence advisable.

Usage Examples of "Cheesy" as an adjective

• A cheesy grin.
• Cheesy motel rooms.
• A pungent, cheesy sauce.
• An album of cheesy pop hits.

Associations of "Cheesy" (30 Words)

bacon	Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried. Crisp rashers of bacon.
baked	Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. Land lying baked in the heat.
beef	The substance of a matter. He was beefing about how the recession was killing the business.
bread	Coat food with breadcrumbs before cooking. His day job puts bread on the table.
burger	A flat round cake of a savoury ingredient, typically minced beef. He sometimes schedules business lunches at his favorite burger joint in Manhattan.
cooked	Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat. A cooked breakfast.
cream	A sweet of a specified flavour which is creamy in texture. Skim cream from the surface of milk.
crispy	(of food) having a firm, dry, and brittle surface or texture. Crispy fried bacon.
deli	A shop selling ready-to-eat food products.
garnish	Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods. Some flowers are edible and make attractive salad garnish.
grill	Cook food using a grill. The student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology.
ham	The back of the thigh or the thighs and buttocks. Thin slices of ham.
hamburger	A sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients.
lasagna	Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
meat	The flesh of an animal, typically a mammal or bird, as food (the flesh of domestic fowls is sometimes distinguished as poultry. Meat pies.
milk	Take milk from female mammals. Cows need to be milked every morning.
mutton	Meat from a mature domestic sheep. A leg of mutton.
pizza	A dish of Italian origin, consisting of a flat round base of dough baked with a topping of tomatoes and cheese, typically with added meat, fish, or vegetables. A pizza restaurant.
pork	Gorge oneself with food. We porked out on cookies and pies.
roast	Of food having been roasted. Roast the turkey.
sandwich	Relating to a sandwich course. She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men.
sausage	An object shaped like a sausage. Her hair hung in glossy black sausage curls.
smoked	(of glass) treated in such a way as to darken it. A plate of smoked salmon.
spaghetti	Spaghetti served with a tomato sauce.
steak	A thick slice of steak or other high quality meat or fish. Half a pound of fillet steak.
toaster	An electrical device for making toast.
topping	Excellent; best possible. A cake with a marzipan topping.
veal	The flesh of a young calf, used as food. Veal and ham pie.
venison	Meat from a deer. Venison steaks.
yogurt	A semi-solid food prepared from milk fermented by added bacteria, often sweetened and flavoured. Low fat yogurt.