sentimental Definition
sen·ti·men·tal (sen′tə ment′'l)
adjective
- having or showing tender, gentle, or delicate feelings, as in aesthetic expression
- having or showing such feelings in an excessive, superficial, or maudlin way; mawkish
- influenced more by emotion than reason; acting from feeling rather than from practical motives
- of or resulting from sentiment a sentimental reason
sentimental Related Forms
sen′·ti·men′·tally adverb
sentimental Synonyms
sentimental
modif.
sentimental Usage Examples
Preposition: about
- animal: Loving is Easy. Caring Costs It's easy to be sentimental about animals.
- thing: You should forge forward instead of being sentimental about things that have gone by.
Preposition: in
- way: So it's a bit sentimental in a way, but that's why I called it Waiting For Sunrise.
- theater: The pro-choice people accuse the anti-abortionists of being sentimental in the operating theater.
Modifies a noun
- melodrama: Sentimental melodrama, virtuous aristocrats rewarded; post-Revolutionary incidents.
- attachment: You know sentimental attachment to children will never make you do anything.
- ballad: He realized that his style was more suited to slow, sentimental ballads, which became his trademark.
- romance: It is used to structure the sentimental romance and is a primary vehicle for narrative and thematic development.
- fool: You won't remember but I was the lone sentimental fool who voted for Carol and Sybil to get back on track!
- ending: The sentimental endings have been perfected by the American Pie series more than any other sex comedy, and Band Camp is no different.
Modifying Another Word
- overly: A beautifully painted, subtly colored picture, thus saved from being overly sentimental.
- purely: Would purely sentimental values justify flying a plane which is dangerous?
- somewhat: He also had a somewhat sentimental interest in keeping material related to his family.
- too: I'm a little worried about the CR score being too sentimental, actually.
- rather: We have a rather sentimental notion of what it must mean to be a " good God " .
- never: It is full of humor and warmth, yet never sentimental.
Used with adjective complement
- get: Perhaps I am just getting sentimental in late middle age, haunted by ghosts of Christmas past.
- feel: I felt quite sentimental at the idea of leaving them.
- become: She moves the reader profoundly without ever becoming sentimental.
- seem: To ask whether it is in decline, or whether it might be a matter for serious social debate can seem sentimental.
Browse dictionary entries near sentimental
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- ‹ sentience
- ‹ sententious
- ‹ sentential function
- ‹ sentence stress
- ‹ sentence
- ‹ sente
- ‹ sent
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