sentimental 音标拼音: [s
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a . 感伤性的,感情脆弱的
感伤性的,感情脆弱的
sentimental adj 1 :
given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality 2 :
effusively or insincerely emotional ; "
a bathetic novel ";
"
maudlin expressions of sympathy "; "
mushy effusiveness "; "
a schmaltzy song "; "
sentimental soap operas "; "
slushy poetry "
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synonym : {
bathetic }, {
drippy }, {
hokey }, {
maudlin }, {
mawkish },
{
kitschy }, {
mushy }, {
schmaltzy }, {
schmalzy }, {
sentimental },
{
soppy }, {
soupy }, {
slushy }]
Sentimental \
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1 .
Having ,
expressing ,
or containing a sentiment or sentiments ;
abounding with moral reflections ;
containing a moral reflection ;
didactic . [
Obsoles .]
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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 .
--
Whitehead .
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2 .
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 .
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A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness . --
Whately .
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3 .
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only ,
usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions .
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Syn :
Romantic .
Usage : {
Sentimental }, {
Romantic }.
Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities ;
romantic ,
a vice of the imagination .
The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement ;
the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment . "
Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental .
They attack the heart more successfully ,
because more cautiously ." --
V .
Knox . "
I can not but look on an indifferency of mind ,
as to the good or evil things of this life ,
as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were ,
or could be ." --
Bp .
Stillingfleet .
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119 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sentimental ":
adoring ,
affectionate ,
apish ,
asinine ,
bathetic ,
batty ,
beery ,
befooled ,
beguiled ,
besotted ,
brainless ,
buffoonish ,
cloying ,
cockeyed ,
compassionate ,
conjugal ,
corny ,
crazy ,
credulous ,
daffy ,
daft ,
dazed ,
demonstrative ,
devoted ,
dizzy ,
doting ,
dreamy ,
drippy ,
dumb ,
emotional ,
faithful ,
fatuitous ,
fatuous ,
filial ,
flaky ,
fond ,
fool ,
foolheaded ,
foolish ,
fuddled ,
futile ,
gaga ,
gooey ,
goofy ,
gulled ,
gushing ,
gushy ,
husbandly ,
icky ,
idiotic ,
imbecile ,
inane ,
inept ,
infatuated ,
insane ,
insipid ,
jejune ,
kooky ,
languishing ,
loony ,
lovelorn ,
lovesick ,
lovesome ,
loving ,
mad ,
maternal ,
maudlin ,
mawkish ,
melting ,
moist ,
moonstruck ,
moronic ,
mushy ,
namby -
pamby ,
nauseating ,
nostalgic ,
nostomanic ,
nutty ,
oversentimental ,
oversentimentalized ,
parental ,
passionate ,
paternal ,
romantic ,
saccharine ,
sappy ,
schmaltzy ,
schoolgirlish ,
screwy ,
senseless ,
sentimentalized ,
sickening ,
silly ,
simpering ,
sloppy ,
slushy ,
soft ,
soppy ,
soupy ,
sticky ,
stupid ,
sweet ,
sympathetic ,
syrupy ,
tacky ,
tear -
jerking ,
tearful ,
teary ,
tender ,
thoughtless ,
uxorious ,
vapid ,
wacky ,
warm -
hearted ,
weepy ,
wet ,
wifely ,
witless ,
yucky
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