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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
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 |
adverb + (adj.)emotional
deeply, highly, overly
(adj.)emotional
+ noun
abuse,
adjustment,
appeal,
arousal,
aspect,
attachment,
baggage,
bond,
breakdown,
burden,
closeness,
coaster,
commitment,
complexity,
component,
connection,
consequence,
content,
coping,
damage,
depression,
depth,
detachment,
development,
difficulty,
dimension,
disability,
disorder,
distance,
distress,
disturbance,
eating,
empathy,
engagement,
exhaustion,
experience,
expression,
feeling,
functioning,
healing,
illness,
impact,
infidelity,
instability,
intelligence,
intensity,
intimacy,
involvement,
isolation,
journey,
maladjustment,
maturity,
need,
neglect,
outburst,
pain,
problem,
processing,
reaction,
reactivity,
resonance,
response,
responsiveness,
reunion,
roller,
roller-coaster,
satisfaction,
scar,
self-esteem,
sensitivity,
separation,
significance,
stability,
stimulus,
strain,
stress,
suffering,
support,
symptom,
testimony,
tie,
toll,
tone,
trauma,
turmoil,
upheaval,
vulnerability,
well-being,
wound,
wreck
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| derivation: |
emotionally (adv.) |
The word emotional
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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