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sentimentalist

sentimentalist noun: a person who is sentimental.

Noun

sentimentalist (plural sentimentalists)

  1. A person who is sentimental.
    • But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC

Forms of sentimentalist

pluralsentimentalists

Origin of sentimentalist

From sentimental + -ist.

Questions about sentimentalist

What does sentimentalist mean?
Sentimentalist means a person who is sentimental.
What part of speech is sentimentalist?
Sentimentalist is a noun.
What is the plural of sentimentalist?
The plural of sentimentalist is sentimentalists.

Words near sentimentalist in the dictionary

  1. sentimentalisers
  2. sentimentalises
  3. sentimentalising
  4. sentimentalism
  5. sentimentalisms
  6. sentimentalist
  7. sentimentalistic
  8. sentimentalistically
  9. sentimentalists
  10. sentimentalities
  11. sentimentality

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