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emotional Definition

emo·tional (ē mō′s̸hə nəl, i-)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with emotion or the emotions
  2. showing emotion, esp. strong emotion
  3. easily aroused to emotion; quick to weep, be angry, etc.
  4. appealing to the emotions; moving people to tears, anger, etc.

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emotional Synonyms

emotional

modif.

  1. Stirring one's emotions

    moving, touching, impassioned, heartfelt; see moving 2, passionate 2.

  2. Given to emotion

    sentimental, sensitive, warm, gushing, hysterical, demonstrative, fiery, zealous, fervent, ardent, soulful, enthusiastic, passionate, fanatic, excitable, impulsive, spontaneous, impetuous, nervous, high-strung, disturbed, agitated, excited, wrought-up, overwrought, worked up, temperamental, irrational, overemotional, histrionic, melodramatic, sentient, oversensitive, hypersensitive, maudlin, overflowing, affectionate, loving, warmhearted, tenderhearted, lachrymose, teary, sloppy*, gaga*, drooling*, icky*, wearing one's heart on one's sleeve*, mushy*, gooey*, soppy*; see also sentimental.

    Antonyms rational, cold*, hard.

emotional Usage Examples

Preposition: about

  • issue: Successful graduates of the process were able to reflect very clearly on themselves, and some reported being less emotional about issues.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • find: Much like the last participant ( P2 ) and most of the others, he stated that he did not find the environment emotional.

Modifies a noun

  • intelligence: The emerging literature of emotional intelligence may be relevant.
  • distress: You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress.
  • well-being: They can even do a lot to help the emotional well-being of their pupils.
  • wellbeing: The emotional wellbeing of employees is an issue for many companies in the UK.
  • attachment: We have been confronted, in truth, by the crafted response of an industry without emotional attachment.
  • trauma: The second book, entitled ' Past Lives, Future Lives ' , is less preoccupied with the emotional trauma of it all.

Modifying Another Word

  • intensely: The intensely emotional plot and superbly drawn characters linger in the mind long after one finishes the book.
  • deeply: Matt 9 v.36 Literally his innards were moved - a deeply emotional response.
  • highly: Promises a long and happy married life, protects a child from evil influences, and safeguards the teenager during the highly emotional period.
  • incredibly: Psychodrama, which involves replaying childhood scenes with other clients of the therapist, was incredibly emotional and to be honest quite good fun.
  • hugely: It is a film that plays across a hugely emotional landscape which inevitably polarizes people.
  • quite: This was quite emotional for me, but I had limited time to do everything I would have liked.

Infinitive complement

  • say: The music was exceptional and emotional to say the least and the final credits reel recaps some of the best moments over the years.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: She said: " I feel rather emotional, actually.
  • get: You'll be able to put your feelings succinctly without getting too emotional.
  • become: I was equally surprised and even the poor old curator became emotional.
  • include: As well as academic issues, these can include emotional, personal, social, sexual or family matters.

Preposition: in

  • origin: It has a unique approach recognizing that sexual difficulties are rarely purely physical or emotional in origin.
emotional Quotes

With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head†so exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720

—Iron

BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families†symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

—Coupland, Douglas

'Humour,' he said,'is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.' SeeWordsworth 925:10.

—Thurber,James Grover

God wasgood onthephysical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.

—Wilson