Emotional \E*mo"tion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable;
easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
emotional
adj 1: determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it
was an emotional judgment" [ant: cerebral]
2: of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly
emotional" [ant: unemotional]
3: of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an
emotional crisis"
4: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large
gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
[syn: effusive, gushing(a), gushy]
5: of persons; excessively affected by emotion; "he would
become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up
about all the noise" [syn: aroused, excited, worked
up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotional":
affecting, affectional, affective, agitable, agitated, ardent,
characteristic, constitutional, demonstrative, dispositional, edgy,
emote, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotionable, emotionalize,
emotionally unstable, emotiovascular, emotive, enthusiastic,
eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, feeling, fervent, fervid,
frantic, glandular, gut, heartfelt, heated, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hotheaded,
hysterical, impassioned, inflammable, innate, intellectual,
irascible, irrational, irritable, mental, mettlesome, moving,
nervous, of soul, overdemonstrative, passionate, perturbable,
poignant, prickly, ranting, responsive, rhapsodic, rhapsodical,
sensitive, sentient, sentimental, skittish, softhearted, soulful,
spiritual, startlish, stirring, susceptible, susceptive,
sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tense, touching, touchy,
visceral, volatile, volcanic, warm, wild, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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