Sentimental

Adjective

 * 1) characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
 * 2) derived from emotion rather than reason
 * 3) romantic

Derived terms

 * sentimentalism
 * sentimentality
 * sentimentally

Quotations

 * 1885: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado,
 * Are you in sentimental mood?
 * I'll sigh with you.


 * 1944: Doris Day, Sentimental Journey,
 * Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
 * Gonna set my heart at ease.
 * Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
 * to renew old memories.

Adverbs for Sentimental
pleasantly; extremely; absurdly; touchingly; incurably; secretly; openly; probably; romantically; feelingly; unusually; somewhat; deeply; profoundly; particularly; ostentatiously; mawkishly; sincerely; genuinely.

Verbs for Sentimental
affect—; appeal to—; avoid—; burlesque—; confess—; depreciate—; detect—; discard —; dismiss—; disparage—; display—; evince—; exclude—; exhibit—; express—; feign—; profess—;  reject—;  ridicule—; scoff at—; shun—; —complicates; —creeps; —exaggerates; —oozes; —riles (colloq.); —softens.

Thesaurus
adoring, affectionate, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, compassionate, conjugal, corny, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, demonstrative, devoted, dizzy, doting, dreamy, drippy, dumb, emotional, faithful, fatuitous, fatuous, filial, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing, gushy, husbandly, icky, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, jejune, kooky, languishing, loony, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, mad, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, moist, moonstruck, moronic, mushy, namby-pamby, nauseating, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, parental, passionate, paternal, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, schoolgirlish, screwy, senseless, sentimentalized, sickening, silly, simpering, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, sticky, stupid, sweet, sympathetic, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, tearful, teary, tender, thoughtless, uxorious, vapid, wacky, warm-hearted, weepy, wet, wifely, witless, yucky

Translations

 * German:
 * Greek: συναισθηματικός


 * Hungarian: érzelgős,
 * Swedish: sentimental


 * Greek: συναισθηματικός


 * Greek: συναισθηματικός


 * Hungarian:

Anagrams

 * entailments

Adjective

 * 1) sentimental

Adjective

 * 1) sentimental

Adjective

 * 1) sentimental

Related terms

 * sentimentalmente