meaning of sentimental
1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
2. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
4. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
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Related Words
sentimental | sentimentalisation | sentimentalise | sentimentalism | sentimentalist | sentimentality | sentimentalization | sentimentalize | sentimentally |
