sentimentaladjective
uk/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl/us/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl/C2 A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based on facts:
Why be sentimental about that old coat? There's no point in keeping it just because you were wearing it when you first met me.
It's a cheap ring but it has great sentimental value for me.
disapproving too strongly influenced by emotional feelings:
silly sentimental songs/stories
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Feelings - general words
- aura
- charged
- emotional
- emotionalism
- feeling
- free-floating
- himself
- in your heart of hearts idiom
- infect
- myself
- ripple
- sentient
- sentiment
- sentimentalism
- soul
- soulful
- stab
- tinge
- tingle
- trip
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Sentimental and over-emotional
sentimentally
adverb uk/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl.i/us/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl.i/