Adjective: emotional i'mow-shu-nul
- Of more than usual emotion
"his behaviour was highly emotional"
- Determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
"it was an emotional judgment"
- Of or pertaining to emotion
"emotional health"; "an emotional crisis"
- (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
"he would become emotional over nothing at all";
- aroused, excited, worked up
See also: affected, affectional, affective, agitated, bathetic, charged, cheesy [informal], corny [informal], cutesy [informal], drippy [informal], emotionalism, emotionality, emotive, funky [informal], gooey [informal], het up [informal], hokey [N. Amer, informal], hot-blooded, kitschy, little, low-down, lyric, lyrical, maudlin, mawkish, mind-blowing, moody, moved, moving, mushy [informal], overemotional, passionate, sappy [informal], schmaltzy [informal], schmalzy [informal], sentimental, sloppy [informal], slushy [informal], soppy [Brit, informal], soulful, soupy [informal], stirred, supercharged, temperamental, touched, warm, warm-blooded, warm-toned, weepy [informal], wrought-up
Antonym: cerebral, unemotional
Encyclopedia: Emotional