| 单词 | emotional |
| 释义 | emotional (once / 357 pages) adj If it has anything to do with feelings like happiness or anger, then consider it emotional. A co-worker who cries at the drop of a hat is overly emotional. If someone says "Stop being so emotional!" they're telling you to calm down because your feelings are out of control. When you're emotional, you're feeling lots of feelings, or emotions: happy, sad, afraid, lonely, mad. An emotional speech makes you stand up and cheer. An emotional movie tugs on your heartstrings. The opposite of emotional is logical: logical things have more to do with your head, while emotional things are all about your heart. WORD FAMILYemotional: emotionalism, emotionality, emotionally, overemotional, unemotional+/emote: emoted, emotes, emoting, emotion, emotive/emotion: emotional, emotionless, emotions/emotionalism: emotionalisms/emotionality: unemotionality/emotionless: emotionlessly, emotionlessness/unemotional: unemotionally USAGE EXAMPLESSee a doctor if your symptoms don’t resolve or if they cause discomfort or emotional distress. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Louisville captures N.C.A.A. men’s basketball championship, placed on probation in emotional ceremony while cutting down net. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Or to consider the emotional impact of the children seeing their father demean their mother in such a way. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj of or pertaining to emotion emotional health an emotional crisis 2adj of more than usual emotion his behavior was highly emotional Syn|Ant affectional, affective, emotive characterized by emotion bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupyeffusively or insincerely emotional cathartic, releasingemotionally purging (of e.g. art) charged, superchargedfraught with great emotion funky, low-down(of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues het upworked up emotionally by anger or excitement hot-bloodedprone to emotion littlesmall in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) lyric, lyricalexpressing deep emotion mind-blowingintensely affecting the mind or emotions moody, temperamentalsubject to sharply varying moods overemotional, sloppyexcessively or abnormally emotional soulfulfull of or expressing deep emotion warm-tonedused of music affected, moved, stirred, touchedbeing excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion movingarousing or capable of arousing deep emotion passionatehaving or expressing strong emotions warmpsychologically warm; friendly and responsive unemotional unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion chillynot characterized by emotion drylacking warmth or emotional involvement impassive, stolidhaving or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited philosophic, philosophicalcharacterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment phlegmatic, phlegmaticalshowing little emotion stoic, stoicalseeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive unblinkingshowing no visible emotion unaffected, unmoved, untouchedemotionally unmoved unmovingnot arousing emotions passionlessnot passionate coolpsychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike 3adj (of persons) excessively affected by emotion he would become emotional over nothing at all Syn aroused, excited, worked up agitated troubled emotionally and usually deeply 4adj determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason it was an emotional judgment Ant cerebral, intellectual involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct |
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