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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
of or relating to the feelings, including how one feels about oneself in relation to others.
Caring for a pet can have emotional benefits.- synonyms:
- affective, emotive, sentimental
- antonyms:
- nonemotional, physical
- similar words:
- heated
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| definition 2: |
easily roused to subjective response; tending to experience emotion.
He appears calm and collected most of the time, but he is an emotional person with a quick temper.- synonyms:
- excitable, feeling, sensitive, sentimental
- antonyms:
- apathetic, clinical, dispassionate, emotionless, impersonal, unemotional
- similar words:
- ardent, fervent, high-strung, nervous, passionate, temperamental, vulnerable
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| definition 3: |
given to expressing or displaying emotion.
- synonyms:
- demonstrative
- antonyms:
- impassive, reserved, sedate, stolid, unemotional
- similar words:
- ardent, feeling, fervent, passionate, reactive, responsive, sensitive, sentimental
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| definition 4: |
capable of stirring emotions, or tending to stir emotions.
an emotional scene from a movie- synonyms:
- emotive, moving, sentimental, touching
- antonyms:
- unaffecting, unemotional, unmoving
- similar words:
- heartrending, heartwarming, heated, impassioned, intense, stirring, tearful, thrilling
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| related words: |
burning, dramatic, interior, internal, lurid, lyrical, romantic, sensational, touching, vehement |
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| derivation: |
emotionally (adv.) |
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