English Explanatory Dictionary

emotional

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the emotions.
  2. Characterized by emotion.
  3. Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
  4. Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  5. Easily affected by emotion.
  6. Readily displaying emotion.
  7. Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.
noun
  1. An emotional person

Pronunciation

/ɪˈməʊʃənəl/ /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-emotional.wav /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/ /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/ /iˈmoʊʃənəl/

Word forms

emotional more emotional most emotional emotionals

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English emotional From emotion + -al.

Synonyms

temperamental sentimental poignant touching affecting striking eloquent emotional persuasive stunning expressive heartbreaking meaningful heartrending significant emotive gripping disturbing upsetting dramatic arousing soul stirring passionate perfervid demonstrative effusive overwhelmed moved overcome

Derived words

antiemotional emocore emosh emotional affair emotional age emotional blackmail emotional competence emotional cripple emotional disturbance emotional eating emotional hardcore emotional incontinence emotional intelligence emotionalise emotionalism emotionalist emotionalistic emotionality emotionalization emotional lability emotional labor emotional labour emotionally emotionalness emotional pivot emotional plane emotional reasoning emotional support animal emotional support vehicle emotional tampon hyperemotional hypoemotional metaemotional neuroemotional nonemotional overemotional pseudoemotional psychoemotional socioemotional superemotional tired and emotional underemotional unemotional

Translations

Bulgarian: емоционален Catalan: emocional Chinese Mandarin: 感情的 Dutch: emotioneel Finnish: tunteellinen French: émotionnel Galician: emocional German: emotional Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי Italian: emotivo Japanese: 感情的 Latvian: emcionāls Maltese: emozzjonali Māori: whakaaroharoha Polish: emocjonalny Polish: gorący Polish: wrażliwy Portuguese: emocional Portuguese: emocionado Portuguese: emotivo Romanian: emoțional Russian: эмоциона́льный Spanish: emocional Swahili: simikwa Swedish: känslosam Swedish: känslofylld Swedish: känsloladdad Tagalog: madamdamin Turkish: duygusal
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