cheesy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: chees=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

cheesy, a. 

 Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cheesy, adj. (cheesier, cheesiest)
1 like cheese in taste, smell, appearance, etc.
2 sl. inferior; cheap and nasty.

Derivative

cheesiness n.

THESAURUS

cheesy

Mickey Mouse, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, bum, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, fourth-class, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, godawful, goshawful, grave, grim, gross, hairy, heinous, icky, inferior, irregular, little, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ornery, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, putrid, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, sleazy, small, sorry, squalid, stinking, stinky, tacky, tatty, third-class, third-rate, tinny, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, worthless, wretched, yecchy