emotional
subject to or easily affected by emotion: We are an emotional family, given to demonstrations of affection.
appealing to the emotions: an emotional request for contributions.
showing or revealing very strong emotions: an emotional scene in a play.
actuated, effected, or determined by emotion rather than reason: An emotional decision is often a wrong decision.
governed by emotion: He is in a highly emotional state of mind.
Origin of emotional
1Other words for emotional
Opposites for emotional
Other words from emotional
- e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- hy·per·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- hy·per·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- non·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- non·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- o·ver·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- o·ver·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- pre·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- pre·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- pseu·do·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- pseu·do·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- qua·si-e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- qua·si-e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- sem·i·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- sem·i·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
- un·e·mo·tion·al, adjective
- un·e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb
Words Nearby emotional
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How to use emotional in a sentence
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Human evolution has left men as deeply wired for emotional connections to children as women are.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe had been, he says, the backbone of their family and losing her shifted their entire emotional landscape.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThis breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.
In One Corner of Syria, Christmas Spirit Somehow Manages to Survive | Peter Schwartzstein | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it is the lasting emotional scars that have been the hardest to deal with.
The Corrupt Cops of Rebel-Held East Ukraine | Kristina Jovanovski | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodFirst, the act of prayer is emotional, and so calms the man who prays, for much of his excitement is worked off.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordArtistic and emotional by temperament, he early threw himself heart and soul into literature.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonI was blinded by passion; but that my emotional depths were not even stirred was manifested by the rapidity of my convalescence.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWhat have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?
God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
British Dictionary definitions for emotional
/ (ɪˈməʊʃənəl) /
of, characteristic of, or expressive of emotion
readily or excessively affected by emotion
appealing to or arousing emotion: an emotional piece of music
caused, determined, or actuated by emotion rather than reason: an emotional argument
Derived forms of emotional
- emotionality, noun
- emotionally, adverb
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