sentimental
Syllables: sen·ti·men·talUK/ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩//ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/
sentimental adjective: characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic taste, etc.
Adjective
sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental)
- Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic taste, etc.
- Are you in sentimental mood?
I'll sigh with you.1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC - Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
Gonna set my heart at ease.
Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
to renew old memories.1944, Doris Day, Sentimental Journey
- Are you in sentimental mood?
- Derived from emotion rather than logical reason.
- Romantic.
sentimental meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
sentimental in Tamil
- உண்ர்ச்சிவசப்படல், உணர்ச்சிபூர்வமான
sentimental in Urdu
- حساس
sentimental in Bengali
- আবেগপ্রবণ
sentimental in Malayalam
- വികാരപരമായ, മനോവികാരപരമായ, സരസമായ, കാല്പനികമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- sentimental in Persian
- سانتیمانتال sântimântâl
- sentimental in Vietnamese
- đa cảm
Examples of sentimental in a sentence
- It was a sentimental gesture that one can only call Lynchian.
- On the evening of Nov. 7, Hoose wrote a sentimental letter to his wife, Georgia.
- Sentimental doesn't equate to boring, and this fun cryptex puzzle with hidden compartments is proof of that.
Antonyms of sentimental
Forms of sentimental
| comparative | more sentimental |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sentimental |
Origin of sentimental
From sentiment + -al.
Words formed from sentimental
- antisentimental
- hypersentimental
- nonsentimental
- oversentimental
- semisentimental
- sentimental comedy
- sentimentalisation
- sentimentalism
- sentimentalist
- sentimentalistic
- sentimentalistically
- sentimentality
- sentimentalization
- sentimentalize
- sentimentally
- sentimental value
- supersentimental
- ultrasentimental
Phrases with sentimental
Questions about sentimental
- What does sentimental mean?
- Sentimental means characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic taste, etc.
- What is sentimental in Tamil?
- Sentimental in Tamil is உண்ர்ச்சிவசப்படல், உணர்ச்சிபூர்வமான. See Sentimental meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sentimental?
- Sentimental is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sentimental?
- Sentimental is pronounced /ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/ (UK).
Words near sentimental in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sentimental (page history and authors); sentimental (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentimental (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentimental (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentimental (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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