sentimental

sentimental
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. emotional, romantic, simpering, maudlin, mawkish. See sensibility. Ant., unsentimental, cool.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. emotional, Romantic, Romantical, dreamy, idealistic, visionary, mawkish, maudlin, bathetic, artificial, sickish, unrealistic, susceptible, silly, overemotional, affected, simpering, languishing, artificial, insincere, overacted, schoolgirlish, sappy*, gushy*, mushy*, tear-jerking*, corny*.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
tender, romantic, maudlin, mawkish, *mushy, emotional, softhearted, misty-eyed, weepy, nostalgic, *saccharine, *corny, *schmaltzy, *gushy, sloppy. ''Having a good cry for its own sake.''—Myron Schueller.
ANT.: unfeeling, cold, hard, stony
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Affectedly or extravagantly emotional: bathetic, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, romantic, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy. Informal: gooey, mushy, schmaltzy, sloppy, soupy. Slang: drippy, sappy, tear-jerking. See FEELINGS.

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  • sentimental — sentimental …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

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  • sentimental — sentimental, romantic, mawkish, maudlin, soppy, mushy, slushy are comparable when they mean unduly or affectedly emotional. Sentimental usually suggests emotion that does not arise from genuine or natural feeling but is evoked by an external… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Sentimental — Sen ti*men tal, a. [Cf. F. sentimental.] 1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] [1913 Webster] Nay, ev n each moral sentimental stroke …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • sentimental — (De sentimiento). 1. adj. Que alberga o suscita sentimientos tiernos o amorosos. 2. Propenso a tales sentimientos. U. t. c. s.) 3. Perteneciente o relativo al sentimiento. Educación sentimental. 4. Exagerado en la expresión de sus sentimientos. U …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • sentimental — ► ADJECTIVE 1) deriving from or prone to feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. 2) having or arousing such feelings in an exaggerated and self indulgent way. ● sentimental value Cf. ↑sentimental value DERIVATIVES sentimentalism noun …   English terms dictionary

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