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- Dictionarysentimental/ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntl/
adjective
- 1. of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia: "she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her" Similar Opposite
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A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based on facts:
The meaning of SENTIMENTAL is marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism. How to use sentimental in a sentence.
A sentimental person or thing feels or makes you feel emotions such as tenderness, affection, or sadness, sometimes in a way that is exaggerated or foolish.
(often disapproving) producing emotions such as sympathy, romantic love, or being sad, which may be too strong or not appropriate; feeling these emotions too much. a slushy, sentimental love story. Her book is honest without being sentimental. He's not the sort of man who gets sentimental about old friendships. You, crying at a film!
SENTIMENTAL definition: 1. showing kind feelings such as sympathy, love, etc, especially in a silly way: 2. related to…. Learn more.
Sentimental definition: expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia. See examples of SENTIMENTAL used in a sentence.
A sentimental person or thing feels or makes you feel emotions such as tenderness, affection, or sadness, sometimes in a way that is exaggerated or foolish. Arabic : عَاطِفِيّ Croatian : sentimentalan
expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song. pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
sentimental meaning, definition, what is sentimental: someone who is sentimental is easily aff...: Learn more.
1. Having, showing, or caused by emotion, especially tender or affectionate feeling: I have sentimental ties to the small town I grew up in. 2. Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way: "He had no sentimental illusions about poverty's virtues" (Sherill Tippins). sen′ti·men′tal·ly adv.
