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sentimentalize

sentimentalize verb: to give a sentimental feel to.

Verb

sentimentalize (third-person singular simple present sentimentalizes, present participle sentimentalizing, simple past and past participle sentimentalized)

  1. (transitive) To give a sentimental feel to.
    • Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.
  2. (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
    • he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC

Forms of sentimentalize

third-person singular presentsentimentalizes
present participlesentimentalizing
past participlesentimentalized
pastsentimentalized

Origin of sentimentalize

From sentimental + -ize.

Words formed from sentimentalize

Questions about sentimentalize

What does sentimentalize mean?
Sentimentalize means to give a sentimental feel to.
What part of speech is sentimentalize?
Sentimentalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of sentimentalize?
The past tense of sentimentalize is sentimentalized.

Words near sentimentalize in the dictionary

  1. sentimentalists
  2. sentimentalities
  3. sentimentality
  4. sentimentalization
  5. sentimentalizations
  6. sentimentalize
  7. sentimentalized
  8. sentimentalizer
  9. sentimentalizers
  10. sentimentalizes
  11. sentimentalizing

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