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sentimental
[ sen-tuh-men-tl ]
adjective
- expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia:
a sentimental song.
Synonyms: nostalgic, tender, romantic, bathetic, maudlin
Antonyms: dispassionate
- pertaining to or dependent on sentiment:
We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
- weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender:
the sentimental Victorians.
- characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.
Antonyms: dispassionate
sentimental
/ ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəl /
adjective
- tending to indulge the emotions excessively
- making a direct appeal to the emotions, esp to romantic feelings
- relating to or characterized by sentiment
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Derived Forms
- ˌsentiˈmentally, adverb
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Other Words From
- senti·mental·ly adverb
- anti·senti·mental adjective
- anti·senti·mental·ly adverb
- hyper·senti·mental adjective
- hyper·senti·mental·ly adverb
- inter·senti·mental adjective
- over·senti·mental adjective
- over·senti·mental·ly adverb
- quasi-senti·mental adjective
- quasi-senti·mental·ly adverb
- semi·senti·mental adjective
- semi·senti·mental·ly adverb
- super·senti·mental adjective
- super·senti·mental·ly adverb
- unsen·ti·mental adjective
- unsen·ti·mental·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sentimental1
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Example Sentences
A good commercial Christmas song must avoid being too sentimental or too cutesy.
Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.
While Kalman tends to mine the past for material, she is as irreverent as she is sentimental.
The simultaneously upbeat and sentimental ode to friendship is equal parts funk, trance, pop, and R&B.
In another series, drafting a fantasy football team by the side of a fallen comrade could be sentimental, even borderline maudlin.
Frulein Fichtner is more in the bravura than in the sentimental line, and she has a certain breadth, grasp, and freshness.
There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
She resented his sudden drop from his pedestal, for he looked sentimental and somewhat sheepish.
I see no infinite goodness here, but only the infinite foolishness of sentimental superstition.
These worthy men really made too much of his sentimental journey.
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