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All sentimental synonyms

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adjective sentimental

  • hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
  • energyless — Without energy.
  • icky — repulsive or distasteful.
  • melting — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
  • weepy — weeping or tending to weep; tearful; lachrymose.
  • gooey — like or covered with goo; sticky; viscid.
  • lovesick — languishing with love: a lovesick adolescent.
  • emotional — Of or relating to a person's emotions.
  • nostalgic — experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation.
  • bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
  • affective — relating to affects
  • mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
  • drippy — dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet.
  • amorous — If you describe someone's feelings or actions as amorous, you mean that they involve sexual desire.
  • lyrical — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
  • overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • gushing — to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.

adj sentimental

  • cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
  • laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
  • cutesy — If you describe someone or something as cutesy, you dislike them because you think they are unpleasantly pretty and sentimental.
  • lackadaisical — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • maudlin — tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
  • lovesome — inspiring love; lovely; lovable.
  • mushy — resembling mush; pulpy.
  • easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
  • lovey-dovey — amorously affectionate: a lovey-dovey couple.
  • impassioned — filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
  • hokey — overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive! Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
  • candied — Food such as candied fruit has been covered with sugar or has been cooked in sugar syrup.
  • amatory — of, relating to, or inciting sexual love or desire
  • gushy — given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
  • easy going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
  • corny — If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original.
  • loving — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
  • fond — having a liking or affection for (usually followed by of): to be fond of animals.
  • cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
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