Sentimental

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized or swayed by sentiment.
  • adj. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional.
  • adj. Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.
  • adj. Appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings: sentimental music.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • adj. derived from emotion rather than reason
  • adj. romantic
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
  • adj. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
  • adj. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Swayed, or apt to be swayed, by sentiment; of a tender and susceptible heart; mawkishly tender or susceptible: as, a sentimental person.
  • Containing or characterized by sentiment; appealing to the feelings rather than to reason: as, a sentimental song; sentimental works.
  • Synonyms Romantic, Sentimental (see romantic), hysterical, gushing, etc. (in style).
  • Of or pertaining to sentimentalism.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
  • adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
  • Equivalent
    tender    emotional   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    romantic    didactic    emotional   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    romantic    passionate    silly    religious    sad