emotional
See also: emoțional
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/, /iˈmoʊʃənəl/
- Rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Adjective
[edit]emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)
- Of or relating to the emotions.
- Synonym: temperamental
- emotional crisis
- emotional lift
- 2018 November 26, Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 April 2019:
- One of the biggest shifts is that much of the conversation about emotional labor has left its original sphere of the workplace and moved to the home.
- Characterized by emotion.
- Synonym: sentimental
- Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
- Synonym: sentimental
- emotional decision
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
- 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
- Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.
- Synonyms: overwhelmed, moved, overcome
- She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.
- I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
Derived terms
[edit]- antiemotional
- emocore
- emosh
- emotional affair
- emotional age
- emotional blackmail
- emotional competence
- emotional cripple
- emotional eating
- emotional hardcore
- emotional incontinence
- emotional intelligence
- emotionalise (also emotionalize)
- 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
[edit]of or relating to the emotions
characterised by emotion
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determined by strong emotion rather than strictly logical reasoning
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appealing to or arousing emotion
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easily affected by emotion
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readily displaying emotion
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Noun
[edit]emotional (plural emotionals)
- An emotional person
German
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]emotional (strong nominative masculine singular emotionaler, comparative emotionaler, superlative am emotionalsten)
Declension
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms suffixed with -al (adjectival)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *m(y)ewh₁-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁éǵʰs
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