emotional
adjective
, -shə-nᵊl\
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noun
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adverb
Synonyms & Antonyms for emotional
Synonyms
ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
Antonyms
cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional
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Earlier, Jack's younger sister Sophie, 18, uploaded her own emotional photo and caption. — Kaitlin Menza, Woman's Day, "Luke Perry's Children Posted Tributes to Their Dad on Instagram," 6 Mar. 2019 Both characters reflect the narrator’s stunted emotional state; neither one can help her generate feeling. — Walton Muyumba, latimes.com, "Detachment and dreaming in 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh," 12 July 2018 Maintain a poker face, don't get emotional, and build up a thick skin. — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, "How RHONY's Barbara Kavovit Shattered The Glass Ceiling Of The Construction Industry," 29 Jan. 2019 If the statistics around how diets fail weren't convincing enough, think of the cost of dieting to our emotional, physical, social, and financial health. — Abby Langer, SELF, "How to Rid Yourself of the Diet Mentality and Stop Dieting Once and For All," 6 Jan. 2019 Pixar’s Inside Out took on the bizarre task of having representations of emotions express their own deep emotional struggles back in summer 2015. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Verge, "The new musical Emojiland is deeply concerned with emoji angst," 19 July 2018 Catelynn knows the emotional struggle that an expectant teen mom faces. — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "Teen Mom's Catelynn Baltierra Emotionally Revisits Her Own Pregnancy on What Would You Do?," 11 July 2018 Get your tissues ready because the Ziegler sisters got really emotional this past week on Dancing with the Stars: Juniors thanks to Mackenzie's latest dance. — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, "Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler Dance Together On "DWTS: Juniors" and It’s Like a “Dance Moms” Flashback," 19 Nov. 2018 Khloé also got emotional during the scene where her sisters were contemplating how to tell her about the news. — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, "Khloé Kardashian Live-Tweeted Last Night's KUWTK Episode About Tristan Thompson," 5 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'emotional.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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