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English
Etymology
From emotion + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)
- Of or relating to the emotions.
- Synonym: temperamental
- emotional crisis
- emotional lift
- Characterised by emotion.
- Synonym: sentimental
- Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
- Synonym: sentimental
- emotional decision
- Appealing to or arousing emotion.
- Synonyms: poignant, touching; see also Thesaurus:moving
- emotional speech
- Easily affected by emotion.
- Synonyms: passionate, perfervid
- She’s an emotional person.
- Readily displaying emotion.
- Synonyms: demonstrative, effusive
- emotional greeting
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to the emotions
- Bulgarian: чувствен (bg) (čuvstven)
- Catalan: emocional
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 感情的 (zh) (gǎnqíng de)
- Czech: emoční, citový (cs)
- Danish: følelsesmæssig, emotionel
- Dutch: gevoelsmatig (nl)
- Esperanto: emocia, afekcia
- Finnish: tunne-, tunne-elämän (genitive of a noun)
- French: émotionnel (fr)
- Galician: emocional (gl)
- German: emotional (de)
- Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi)
- Hungarian: érzelmi (hu), érzelmes (hu), hangulati (hu)
- Italian: emotivo (it), emozionante (it)
- Japanese: 感情的 (ja) (かんじょうてき, kanjōteki)
- Korean: 감성적인 (gamseongjeogin)
- Latvian: emocionāls
- Maltese: emozzjonali
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: emosjonell (no), følelsesmessig (no)
- Nynorsk: emosjonell
- Occitan: emocional (oc)
- Polish: emocjonalny (pl), uczuciowy (pl)
- Portuguese: emocional (pt), emotivo (pt)
- Romanian: emoțional (ro)
- Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj), чу́вственный (ru) (čúvstvennyj)
- Spanish: emocional (es)
- Swahili: simikwa (sw)
- Swedish: emotionell (sv), känslomässig (sv)
- Tagalog: madamdamin
- Turkish: duygusal (tr)
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determined by strong emotion rather than strictly logical reasoning
appealing to or arousing emotion
easily affected by emotion
readily displaying emotion
Noun
emotional (plural emotionals)
- An emotional person
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
emotional (strong nominative masculine singular emotionaler, comparative emotionaler, superlative am emotionalsten)
- emotional
Declension
Positive forms of emotional
Comparative forms of emotional
Superlative forms of emotional
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