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单词 emotional
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Definition of emotional in English:

emotional

adjective ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈmoʊʃ(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Relating to a person's emotions.

    gaining emotional support from relatives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this case, the mural has helped pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties to learn about history.
    • Trained volunteers will offer emotional support, information and advice in complete confidence.
    • The condition and treatment cause fatigue, but there are also emotional and practical issues to deal with.
    • This can be a result of emotional difficulties or being prone to anxiety.
    • I would think that the woman in question has severe emotional issues that should be dealt with.
    • The nurses also give practical and emotional support to the family at this incredibly difficult time.
    • We provided her with emotional support and tried to help her deal with the reality of her situation.
    • It does not deal with emotional trauma or past issues and is clearly very different from counselling.
    • His family is struggling and scrambling to deal with not only the emotional issues but the financial impact as well.
    • We try to give them emotional support and an idea of what is right and wrong.
    • Also, generous relatives may be able to offer emotional and financial support.
    • They may have a range of emotional needs, issues related to drugs or alcohol or a history of offending.
    • Or maybe they have given them emotional support during a difficult period in their life.
    • The emotional difficulties they face are just part of the problem.
    • They accuse their parents of not understanding them, of not offering emotional support.
    • Springfields manages a centre for primary school pupils experiencing emotional difficulties.
    • Students who were unable to take part because of emotional and behavioural difficulties showed their work on video.
    • Relationships need your presence along with emotional and physical support.
    • He urged the justices not to lock her up as he felt that she needed help in overcoming her emotional difficulties to stop her offending.
    • The court also heard that his girlfriend is standing by him and will offer emotional support when he is finally released from jail.
    Synonyms
    spiritual, inner, psychic, psychological, of the heart
    1. 1.1 Arousing or characterized by intense feeling.
      an emotional speech
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While the issue can become highly emotional, most Chinese employees will vote with their feet.
      • Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
      • Scarcely able to conceal his disappointment, he issued an emotional apology afterwards.
      • The devastated parents of a man murdered in a Bolton town centre street have issued an emotional plea to help catch his killer.
      • We struggle with the emotional issues of success and failure in our lives, and what did we do?
      • The whole town revolves around the club and so the experience is going to be very intense and emotional for him.
      • Controversial social and political issues underlay these emotional exchanges.
      • All of these reports focused heavily on the emotional intensity of Blair's speech.
      • It was definitely intense and emotional at times, but that's just part of recording.
      • Everything that I'm drawn to is always pretty deep, emotional and intense.
      • At last night's meeting he was spearheading an intense and at times emotional debate on the countryside.
      • Taking it can be an intense emotional experience, one that you may not be prepared for.
      • Counselling will help you to talk through the emotional issues that you are both struggling with at the moment.
      • It was an intense, emotional experience shot through with moments of genius.
      • After days of emotional testimony, the issue was to become black or white.
      • There are things he made me do in the film, very intense emotional work, that I didn't know I was capable of.
      Synonyms
      poignant, moving, touching, affecting, powerful, stirring, emotive, heart-rending, heartbreaking, heart-warming, soul-stirring, uplifting, impassioned, dramatic
      harrowing, tragic, haunting, pathetic
      sentimental, over-sentimental, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, lachrymose
      informal tear-jerking, soppy, mushy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy
      North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky
      emotive, sensitive, delicate, difficult, problematic
      controversial, contentious, subjective
    2. 1.2 (of a person) having feelings that are easily excited and openly displayed.
      he was a strongly emotional young man
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's why I was so emotional afterwards because all my personal hell was going through my head.
      • I try my best with the emotional parts, seeing as I'm not a very outwardly emotional person myself.
      • It was enough to bring tears of relief or nostalgia to a more emotional person's eyes.
      • As happens with emotional people, her voice filled with desperation.
      • Women are more emotional, think in grander ways and can see the bigger picture, whereas a lot of men prefer the smaller picture.
      • An emotional congregation packed into a Walton church for the last time.
      • This in turn led to my somewhat hypocritical agreement about emotional children.
      • An emotional father has been reunited with his daughter 27 years after he last saw her
      • His grandfather was not, in the general way of things, an emotional man.
      • The square formed between the Moon and Pluto shows you have an intense emotional nature.
      • I am quite an emotional person but I am shrouded in a fairly straight exterior.
      • My first impression of him is that he's a very emotional person and he lets his emotions be seen.
      • We think men are cold and uncaring, they think we are too emotional and clingy.
      • He was a passionate and emotional man always yearning to uncover and reveal the mystery of the world he lived in.
      • Men are rational and think with their brains whereas women are emotional and rule by their hearts or feelings.
      • He is an emotional man, whose attempts at toughness are often undermined by personal contact.
      • There were many emotional customers there to say goodbye and wish Mary a happy retirement.
      • He speaks simply, he's a very emotional man, and he shows a lot of passion in what he says.
      • I would prefer an emotional hero any day to an intellectual superstar.
      • He's a very emotional person and he likes to be a father figure to all of his team.
      Synonyms
      passionate, feeling, hot-blooded, warm, ardent, fervent, excitable, temperamental, melodramatic, tempestuous, overcharged, responsive
      demonstrative, tender, loving, sentimental, sensitive

Derivatives

  • emotionalism

  • noun ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪz(ə)m
    • It would be refreshing if such decisions were made on a careful analysis of the best available technology, rather than on the emotionalism of environmentalists who only look backwards.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In spite of their lack of words, his images have a strong political charge and sensitive emotionalism depicted through intense graphic design.
      • Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
      • As already indicated, the intense emotionalism about the liberal moment was suggestive of novelty - the appearance of a new dawn.
      • But another panelist accused me of ‘girlish’ sentimentality and of concocting my emotionalism as a means to sell newspapers.
  • emotionalist

  • adjective & noun
    • And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And this is far more moving than a conventionally emotionalist narrative.
      • Absence of such understanding led in the past to the intensely emotionalist approach which set the vague notion of ‘feeling’ as an arbiter.
  • emotionality

  • noun ɪməʊʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtiəˌmoʊʃəˈnælədi
    • Sorting out what constitutes reasonable and unreasonable emotionality is a highly charged, and often highly personal, endeavor.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her qualities were valued but her emotionality surprised the team.
      • It's a live recording that is naked in its emotionality and beauty, simply overpowering.
      • Poetry, for her, is an eloquent language that best expresses emotionality, sensuality and ethereal moments.
      • We like to think that we are about reason and rationality while the other side is all hot emotionality.
  • emotionalize

  • verb ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlʌɪzəˈmoʊʃənəˌlaɪz
    [with object]
    • View or present in an emotional way.

      you always want viewers to emotionalize your brand
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the media promote emotionalized reports to ensure maximum attention
      • ‘Gay marriage, as a term, emotionalises the whole issue,’ he said.
      • I was also annoyed at the media for its rampant simplification and emotionalising of the issues.
      • Just as before, Levin tries to intellectualize the situation, while Kitty only knows how to ‘emotionalize’ it.

Rhymes

devotional, notional, promotional
 
 

Definition of emotional in US English:

emotional

adjectiveəˈmoʊʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈmōSH(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Relating to a person's emotions.

    children with emotional difficulties
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The nurses also give practical and emotional support to the family at this incredibly difficult time.
    • The condition and treatment cause fatigue, but there are also emotional and practical issues to deal with.
    • The court also heard that his girlfriend is standing by him and will offer emotional support when he is finally released from jail.
    • The emotional difficulties they face are just part of the problem.
    • They accuse their parents of not understanding them, of not offering emotional support.
    • This can be a result of emotional difficulties or being prone to anxiety.
    • They may have a range of emotional needs, issues related to drugs or alcohol or a history of offending.
    • We provided her with emotional support and tried to help her deal with the reality of her situation.
    • Also, generous relatives may be able to offer emotional and financial support.
    • In this case, the mural has helped pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties to learn about history.
    • Students who were unable to take part because of emotional and behavioural difficulties showed their work on video.
    • Trained volunteers will offer emotional support, information and advice in complete confidence.
    • His family is struggling and scrambling to deal with not only the emotional issues but the financial impact as well.
    • He urged the justices not to lock her up as he felt that she needed help in overcoming her emotional difficulties to stop her offending.
    • Relationships need your presence along with emotional and physical support.
    • We try to give them emotional support and an idea of what is right and wrong.
    • It does not deal with emotional trauma or past issues and is clearly very different from counselling.
    • Or maybe they have given them emotional support during a difficult period in their life.
    • I would think that the woman in question has severe emotional issues that should be dealt with.
    • Springfields manages a centre for primary school pupils experiencing emotional difficulties.
    Synonyms
    spiritual, inner, psychic, psychological, of the heart
    1. 1.1 Arousing or characterized by intense feeling.
      an emotional speech
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The devastated parents of a man murdered in a Bolton town centre street have issued an emotional plea to help catch his killer.
      • We struggle with the emotional issues of success and failure in our lives, and what did we do?
      • Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
      • After days of emotional testimony, the issue was to become black or white.
      • Scarcely able to conceal his disappointment, he issued an emotional apology afterwards.
      • The whole town revolves around the club and so the experience is going to be very intense and emotional for him.
      • At last night's meeting he was spearheading an intense and at times emotional debate on the countryside.
      • While the issue can become highly emotional, most Chinese employees will vote with their feet.
      • There are things he made me do in the film, very intense emotional work, that I didn't know I was capable of.
      • Taking it can be an intense emotional experience, one that you may not be prepared for.
      • It was definitely intense and emotional at times, but that's just part of recording.
      • Everything that I'm drawn to is always pretty deep, emotional and intense.
      • All of these reports focused heavily on the emotional intensity of Blair's speech.
      • Counselling will help you to talk through the emotional issues that you are both struggling with at the moment.
      • It was an intense, emotional experience shot through with moments of genius.
      • Controversial social and political issues underlay these emotional exchanges.
      Synonyms
      poignant, moving, touching, affecting, powerful, stirring, emotive, heart-rending, heartbreaking, heart-warming, soul-stirring, uplifting, impassioned, dramatic
      emotive, sensitive, delicate, difficult, problematic
    2. 1.2 (of a person) having feelings that are easily excited and openly displayed.
      he was a strongly emotional young man
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I try my best with the emotional parts, seeing as I'm not a very outwardly emotional person myself.
      • He was a passionate and emotional man always yearning to uncover and reveal the mystery of the world he lived in.
      • An emotional congregation packed into a Walton church for the last time.
      • He is an emotional man, whose attempts at toughness are often undermined by personal contact.
      • We think men are cold and uncaring, they think we are too emotional and clingy.
      • That's why I was so emotional afterwards because all my personal hell was going through my head.
      • This in turn led to my somewhat hypocritical agreement about emotional children.
      • I am quite an emotional person but I am shrouded in a fairly straight exterior.
      • The square formed between the Moon and Pluto shows you have an intense emotional nature.
      • There were many emotional customers there to say goodbye and wish Mary a happy retirement.
      • An emotional father has been reunited with his daughter 27 years after he last saw her
      • His grandfather was not, in the general way of things, an emotional man.
      • It was enough to bring tears of relief or nostalgia to a more emotional person's eyes.
      • I would prefer an emotional hero any day to an intellectual superstar.
      • Women are more emotional, think in grander ways and can see the bigger picture, whereas a lot of men prefer the smaller picture.
      • Men are rational and think with their brains whereas women are emotional and rule by their hearts or feelings.
      • As happens with emotional people, her voice filled with desperation.
      • He speaks simply, he's a very emotional man, and he shows a lot of passion in what he says.
      • He's a very emotional person and he likes to be a father figure to all of his team.
      • My first impression of him is that he's a very emotional person and he lets his emotions be seen.
      Synonyms
      passionate, feeling, hot-blooded, warm, ardent, fervent, excitable, temperamental, melodramatic, tempestuous, overcharged, responsive

Usage

See emotive
 
 
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