Definitions for: Emotional


[adj] of persons; excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"
[adj] extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
[adj] of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
[adj] determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it was an emotional judgment"
[adj] of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis"



Webster (1913) Definition: E*mo"tion*al, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable;
easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

Synonyms: affectional, affective, agitated, aroused, bathetic, cathartic, charged, demonstrative, effusive, emotive, excited, funky, gushing(a), gushy, het up(p), hot-blooded, Latin, little, low-down, lyric, lyrical, maudlin, mawkish, mind-blowing, moody, mushy, overemotional, releasing, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soulful, supercharged, temperamental, warm-toned, worked up

Antonyms: cerebral, intellectual, unemotional

See Also: moved(p), moving, passionate, warm

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