Call a person sentimental if he or she is led more by emotions than by reason. If you have a sentimental attachment to a favorite stuffed animal, you'll probably even bring it to college with you.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
Adjective S.
effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
Adjective S.
given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
a.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or
sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral
reflection; didactic.
a.
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment
or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake;
artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
a.
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to
the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Sentimental
Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.2.
A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.3.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
Usage Examples
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
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Other Usage ExamplesGay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.