emotional
/ɪˈməʊʃənəl/US/ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/
emotional adjective: of or relating to the emotions.
Adjective
emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)
- Of or relating to the emotions.
- emotional crisis
- emotional lift
- Synonyms:
- temperamental
- Characterized by emotion.
- Synonyms:
- sentimental
- Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
- emotional decision
- The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- Synonyms:
- sentimental
- Appealing to or arousing emotion.
- emotional speech
- Synonyms:
- poignant, touching, affecting, striking, eloquent, persuasive, stunning, expressive, heartbreaking, meaningful
- Easily affected by emotion.
- She’s an emotional person.
- Synonyms:
- passionate, perfervid
- Readily displaying emotion.
- emotional greeting
- Synonyms:
- demonstrative, effusive
- Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.
- She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.
- I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
- Synonyms:
- overwhelmed, moved, overcome
Noun
emotional (plural emotionals)
- An emotional person
emotional meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
emotional in Hindi
- emotional; sentimental
- भावनात्मक bhāvnātmak
- emotional, having feeling
- भावमय bhāvmay
- emotional, sentimental
- भावुक bhāvuk
emotional in Tamil
- உணர்ச்சி வயப்பட்ட, உணர்ச்சிவயப்பட்ட, உணர்வெழுச்சி சார்பான, உணர்ச்சிவச, உள எழுச்சி உள்ள
emotional in Urdu
- جذباتی
emotional in Bengali
- আবেগপূর্ণ, আবেগপ্রবণ, আবেগময়, আবেগ সংক্রান্ত, অনুভূতি সংক্রান্ত, ভাবপ্রবণ
More languagesFewer languages
- emotional in Malayalam
- മനോവികാരമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്ന് വികാരധീനനാകുന്ന
- emotional in Tagalog
- madamdamin, emosyonal
- emotional in Indonesian
- emosional
Examples of emotional in a sentence
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- What a brittle person! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
Synonyms of emotional
- temperamental
- sentimental
- poignant
- touching
- affecting
- striking
- eloquent
- persuasive
- stunning
- expressive
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Forms of emotional
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more emotional |
| superlative | most emotional |
| Noun | |
| plural | emotionals |
Origin of emotional
From emotion + -al.
Words formed from emotional
- antiemotional
- emocore
- emosh
- emotional affair
- emotional age
- emotional blackmail
- emotional competence
- emotional cripple
- emotional eating
- emotional hardcore
- emotional incontinence
- emotional intelligence
- emotionalise
- 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
Phrases with emotional
Words that rhyme with emotional
Questions about emotional
- What does emotional mean?
- Emotional means of or relating to the emotions.
- What is emotional in Hindi?
- Emotional in Hindi is भावनात्मक (bhāvnātmak), भावमय (bhāvmay), भावुक (bhāvuk). See Emotional meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is emotional?
- Emotional can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce emotional?
- Emotional is pronounced /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/ (UK).
Words near emotional in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: emotional (page history and authors); भावनात्मक (Hindi) (page history and authors); emotional (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emotional (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emotional (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emotional (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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