Word Meanings - SENTIMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign

Additional info about word: SENTIMENTAL

1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. 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. 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. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately. 3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. Syn. -- Romantic. -- 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SENTIMENTAL)

• Maudlin
• Intoxicated
• temulent
• sentimental
• mawkish
• mellow
• Mawkish
• Sickly
• maudlin
• insipid
• loathsome
• nauseous
• flat
• Romantic
• Fabulous
• rhapsodical
• wild
• extravagant
• fanciful
• fictitious

Related words: (words related to SENTIMENTAL)

• MAWKISHLY
  In a mawkish way.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• MELLOWY
  Soft; unctuous. Drayton.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• MAWKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• NAUSEOUS
  Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
• MAUDLINWORT
  The oxeye daisy.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• MAWKISH
  1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.
• INSIPIDLY
  In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.
• INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
  The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.
• TEMULENTIVE
  Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. R. Junius.
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• INTOXICATION
  A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.