sentimental
[sen-tuh-men-tl]
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adjective
expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
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.
Origin of sentimental
Synonyms for sentimental
Antonyms for sentimental
1, 4. dispassionate.
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Examples from the Web for sentimentally
Historical Examples of sentimentally
“‘Say au revoir, but not good-by,’” sang Miss Sherborne sentimentally.
Cap'n Warren's WardsJoseph C. Lincoln
The youth of her was in that intangible thing called, sentimentally, the spirit.
GigoloEdna Ferber
"Made more lovely because of you," replied Waldstricker, sentimentally.
The Secret of the Storm CountryGrace Miller White
And sentimentally, not imaginatively, the Englishman will die.
AppearancesGoldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
Familiar QuotationsJohn Bartlett
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