overemotional

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Recent Examples of overemotional Yes, that was Mother in a nutshell, or a caul: an overemotional territory with no boundaries whatsoever. Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals. Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overemotional
Adjective
  • The man accused of stabbing two people in a frenzied rush hour attack at Grand Central Station was angry over one of the victims accidentally stepping on his shoes, Manhattan prosecutors said — while the man’s lawyer insisted his client was attacked first.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
  • And talks are hitting a frenzied pace: Hawley is touting his win on compensation for workers exposed to radiation, while Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is celebrating getting billions for border security reimbursement in his state.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • But deeper in, percussion livens up under orgiastic shrieks and a cameo on guitar from Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
  • Things get even more heated when the characters burst into a series of sweltering original songs at the Juke, creating an orgiastic — even religious — fever strong enough to rip the space-time continuum apart at the seams.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Calm restored in the Treasury market, yields settling back slightly to quiet the overexcited talk about fiscal fissures.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2025
  • After a brain injury, NMDA receptors can become overexcited, causing further cell death, so quieting these receptors might prevent additional damage.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • While not made from the same fabric, the Target pair is still breathable and cooling, with stretch that won’t cling and allows for uninhibited movement.
    Shea Simmons, People.com, 15 June 2025
  • The surveillance aspects of AI systems also pose risks to the kind of uninhibited exploration that genuine play requires.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • As a result of this downward pressure on prices, some of the markets that became the most overheated during the pandemic homebuying frenzy are now cooling fast.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • After 12 people died in an overheated nursing home after Hurricane Irma knocked out the power, Florida in 2018 enacted legislation requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have a generator capable of keeping patient areas at 81 degrees Fahrenheit or lower for at least four days.
    Kff Health News, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Where to watch: Disney+ 'Straw' Tyler Perry's melodramatic thriller depicts the worst day a parent could ever have.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Yet these persuasive quiet bits sit within the larger shape of a book that was meant to be melodramatic and violent.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • The most reliably entertaining are the dryly sardonic Yelena Belova (Pugh) and the excitable, histrionic Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (a showily outsized Harbour).
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Real Women takes a more tender, less histrionic approach.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The clock is ticking down on Trump's 90-day pause on those tariffs — but institutional investors are actually growing more enthusiastic about emerging markets, according to Bank of America's most recent Fund Manager Survey.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 19 June 2025
  • But that outlook changed dramatically under Chip Kelly, who was neither energetic nor enthusiastic about high school recruiting.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 17 June 2025

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“Overemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overemotional. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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