emotionale‧mo‧tion‧al /ɪˈməʊʃənəl $ ɪˈmoʊ-/ ●●● S3 W3 adjective 
She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me. Ann suffered from depression and a number of other emotional problems. the physical and emotional state of the patient2making people have strong feelings: Abortion is a very emotional issue. The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us.3having strong feelings and showing them to other people, especially by cryingget/become emotional He became very emotional when we had to leave.4influenced by what you feel, rather than what you know: an emotional response to the problem—emotionally adverb: Nursing is an emotionally and physically demanding job.THESAURUS– Meaning 2causing strong feelingsemotional causing people to have strong feelings – used especially about experiences, speeches, or subjects that people have strong feelings about: · Returning home after a year in hospital was an emotional experience for Katy.· He gave an emotional speech at the funeral.· It was a very emotional moment.· Abortion rights is a highly emotional issue.emotive used about issues or language that make people have strong feelings: · Fox hunting is a very emotive issue in Britain.· ‘Indoctrination’ is rather an emotive word.moving making you feel strong feelings of sadness or sympathy: · Kelly’s book about her illness is deeply moving.· a moving filmtouching making you feel slightly emotional – used especially when someone does something that shows how much they care about another person: · Your loyalty is very touching.· My son phoned me to wish me good luck, which was a touching gesture.poignant making you feel strong feelings of sadness or pity, especially when you remember something in the past: · Her youthful expression is a poignant reminder of the passing of time.sentimental (also schmaltzy) informal dealing with emotions such as love and sadness in a way that seems silly: · He found the film too sentimental.· a schmaltzy comedy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ann suffered from a number of emotional disturbances.
- Grandpa gets very emotional when he talks about the war.
- He's an emotional guy.
- In an emotional outburst, Shahidi told reporters she now had no life worth living.
- It was an emotional game for all of us.
- Most couples remember the arrival of their first baby as a highly emotional time.
- Newspaper reporters were there to record the emotional reunion between the woman and her children.
- The busing plan got an emotional response from the community.
- The council's vote came after nearly six hours of emotional debate.
- An attractive hypothesis is that the activity of this region in man and monkey is related to emotional speech, especially expletives.
- Crystal still has to adjust to the collegiate game, which is more emotional and physical.
- Leaving children behind may put an emotional strain on the family.
- Of course, what this ignores are the often huge emotional sacrifices that the individual who becomes a tax exile must make.
- Rather, their thinking denotes a permanent shift in both the emotional and intellectual temper of the age.
- Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional, financial and legal issues.
- The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.
- We have the freedom to be open about our feelings that comes with an emotional crisis.
THESAURUScausing strong feelings
causing people to have strong feelings – used especially about experiences, speeches, or subjects that people have strong feelings about: · Returning home after a year in hospital was an emotional experience for Katy.· He gave an emotional speech at the funeral.· It was a very emotional moment.· Abortion rights is a highly emotional issue.
used about issues or language that make people have strong feelings: · Fox hunting is a very emotive issue in Britain.· ‘Indoctrination’ is rather an emotive word.
making you feel strong feelings of sadness or sympathy: · Kelly’s book about her illness is deeply moving.· a moving film
making you feel slightly emotional – used especially when someone does something that shows how much they care about another person: · Your loyalty is very touching.· My son phoned me to wish me good luck, which was a touching gesture.
making you feel strong feelings of sadness or pity, especially when you remember something in the past: · Her youthful expression is a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
(also schmaltzy) informal dealing with emotions such as love and sadness in a way that seems silly: · He found the film too sentimental.· a schmaltzy comedy
Longman Language Activatorevents and situations that make people have strong feelings an emotional event or situation makes people feel strong emotions: · The council's vote came after nearly six hours of emotional debate.· Newspaper reporters were there to record the emotional reunion between the woman and her children.highly emotional: · Most couples remember the arrival of their first baby as a highly emotional time.
a moving account, experience, or event makes people feel strong emotions of pity, sadness, or joy: · The book is a very moving account of life in the refugee camps of Thailand.· After the final game there was a moving tribute to one of the players, who died tragically during the season.· The scene at the end of Act III is very moving, when Rafaella finds out that her husband has betrayed her.
a touching event or moment makes people feel a little sad and happy at the same time, and makes them like the people involved: · It was a touching scene when old Mr Adams received his leaving present.· It was touching to see them together. They were obviously still in love after thirty years of marriage.
: emotive issue/area/phrase etc a subject, statement, use of language etc that makes people have very strong feelings or emotions, especially of anger: · The candidates agreed to avoid emotive issues like abortion and child abuse.highly emotive (=very emotive): · The documentary deliberately uses highly emotive language, talking about "exploitation' and "blackmail'.
especially written a poignant event, image, remark etc makes you feel great sadness and pity: · This is one of her most beautiful and poignant works.· In a poignant moment, Richter interrupted his speech to thank his mother and father.
behaving in a way that shows strong feelings behaving in a way that shows that you have strong feelings about something, for example by crying or shouting: · Grandpa gets very emotional when he talks about the war.emotional outburst (=a sudden powerful expression of strong emotion): · In an emotional outburst, Shahidi told reporters she now had no life worth living.
use this about people who openly show very strong feelings about something, especially love or anger: · She was a handsome Spanish woman with a passionate nature and a warm, generous heart.· Sometimes I wish he was more passionate, not so rational about everything.
if you say, do, or write something with feeling , you do it in a way that shows you have strong feelings about it: · I want you to sing it once more, this time with feeling.· She writes with great feeling about the fate of the refugees, having been a refugee herself in the last year.
an impassioned speech, request, argument etc is full of strong feeling and emotion: · Robins criticized the investigation during an impassioned speech outside police headquarters.· Moore gave an impassioned defense of the government's role in the affair.an impassioned supporter/defender/champion of something: · Muir was an impassioned and persuasive champion of wilderness preservation.
to force someone to do something · You don't have to come if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you.force somebody to do something · Women's organizations are trying to force the government to appoint more women to senior positions.force somebody into doing something · Her parents are trying to force her into marrying a man she hardly knows.force somebody into something · I had never thought of buying an insurance policy, and I wasn't going to be forced into it by some young salesman.force somebody out of · Eddie feels that he was forced out of his job in order to make way for a younger man.
to force someone to do something that they do not want to do. Make is less formal than force: · I really didn't want to go, but she made me.make somebody do something: · I wanted to watch the film, but Dad made me do my homework.· Karen made him promise never to discuss the subject again.
to keep trying to persuade someone to do something, for example by saying that it is their duty or that it will help other people: put pressure on somebody to do something: · Our parents were putting pressure on us to get married.· Advertising puts pressure on parents to work long hours, in order to buy things that their children don't need.
also pressurise British, /pressure American to try to make someone do something by persuading them very strongly and making them feel that they should do it: · I'll get this done as soon as I can -- just don't pressure me, OK!· If she feels you're trying to pressurize her, she won't do it.pressurize/pressure somebody into doing something: · School children are often pressurized into studying very hard from an early age by their parents.· The committee pressured him into resigning.pressure somebody to do something: · Her boyfriend is pressuring her to have an abortion.
to strongly encourage someone to do something: push somebody to do something: · My parents keep pushing me to get a good job.push somebody into doing something: · Don't let them push you into a making a decision before you're ready.push somebody into something: · Are you sure you want to marry me? I don't want to push you into anything.
to force someone to do what you want them to do by repeatedly asking them to do it until they finally agree: · The salesman tried browbeating me but it didn't work.browbeat somebody into (doing) something: · The miners were browbeaten into working in a part of the mine that the company knew to be dangerous.· I really didn't want to make this speech -- I was browbeaten into it by my colleagues.
an attempt to force someone to do something, by making them feel guilty for not doing it: · She's always using emotional blackmail and playing on other people's feelings.· Any relationship that has to depend on emotional blackmail can't be a healthy one.
informal if someone is breathing down your neck about something, they keep asking you to do it in order to make you do it sooner: · I'm already really busy today, and now Paul's breathing down my neck saying he wants the Paris deal completed.have somebody breathing down your neck: · We'd better start sending out those letters soon -- I've had the sales manager breathing down my neck about it all week.
informal to be trying to make someone do something they do not want to do, especially by telling them several times to do it: · Nick knew that the coach would be on his back if he missed another training session.be on sb's back about: · Aunt Mimi was always on his back about him "wasting time playing that silly guitar".
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me. Ann suffered from depression and a number of other emotional problems. the physical and emotional state of the patient Abortion is a very emotional issue. The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us. He became very emotional when we had to leave. an emotional response to the problemCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She had already tried emotional blackmail (=tried to make him feel guilty) to stop him leaving. Low birth weight is related to economic deprivation. Weaver admitted a strong emotional involvement in her client’s case. He lacks the emotional maturity to appreciate poetry. a child starved of emotional nourishment his father’s violent outbursts of temper the emotional trauma of rape the prospect of another week of political turmoil The attack had left her an emotional wreck.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me. Ann suffered from depression and a number of other emotional problems. the physical and emotional state of the patient Abortion is a very emotional issue. The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us. He became very emotional when we had to leave. an emotional response to the problem She had already tried emotional blackmail (=tried to make him feel guilty) to stop him leaving.· As soon as we met we felt an emotional bond.
Low birth weight is related to economic deprivation.· Depriving a child of love does irreparable emotional harm.
· Their mother’s death had a huge emotional impact on the children.
Weaver admitted a strong emotional involvement in her client’s case. He lacks the emotional maturity to appreciate poetry. a child starved of emotional nourishment his father’s violent outbursts of temper· He suffers from depression and other emotional problems.
(=showing strong emotion, especially by crying)· I was surprised by her emotional reaction to the news.
· When she died, the emotional response was extraordinary.
· The mental scars left by the accident are still with him.
(=showing emotions, especially by crying)· On retiring, she delivered an emotional farewell speech.
· Whenever Ben stops his medication, his mental state deteriorates.
· She has been suffering from considerable emotional strain.
· It was a time of great emotional stress for me.
· He was a loner who failed to develop emotional ties with other people.
the emotional trauma of rape the prospect of another week of political turmoil The attack had left her an emotional wreck.· He was aware of an almost imperceptible withdrawing, more emotional than physical, a small delicate gesture of self-containment.· Women are much more emotional than men.· But the reasons are more emotional than scientific.· Crystal still has to adjust to the collegiate game, which is more emotional and physical.· Clearly Emilia Frere's decline was more emotional than physical, for it would respond to no remedy.· But although women are not more emotional than men, we are individuals with individual differences in emotions as in other things.· If the anxiety does not diminish, more emotional probing may need to take place with some one skilled in this area.
· They felt very emotional about each other, he said.· He became very emotional, started crying and kept putting his hands together in that way of his.· Every session is different - some sessions race by, others drag, some are quite businesslike, others get very emotional.· People get very emotional over the issues involved and discussion may tend to become polarised.· It was a very emotional experience.· They say its their heritage and they're very emotional about it.· Naturally this is a very emotional moment, but we try to remain calm.· He felt very emotional, caught up in his own acting and awareness of the speech's significance from the night before.
NOUN· The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.· In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
· His sister Julie Seddon, 28, of Skelmersdale, made an emotional appeal for him to give himself up.· That emotional appeal is not necessarily bad, although it obviously becomes so when put to evil use.· Later Jonathan Probyn made an emotional appeal for his estranged wife to contact him or her family.· Who is intellectual, who is motivated by logic, by emotional appeal?· In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes, vulgarity, rudeness, emotional appeals, a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten.· Macmillan made a long and politically emotional appeal for Skybolt's replacement by Polaris.
· There are still strong emotional attachments to these outposts, which are spread out over the valley.· The emotional attachment for audiences is the relationship between Flynt and Althea, and she is absolutely instrumental at that.· It is a perfect pairing of emotional attachment and learning.· Do people search for emotional attachments when they migrate to cities?· In 1984, only 59 percent were looking for an emotional attachment.· In particular, emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments.· Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her - in fact quite the opposite!
· There is emotional blackmail over custody of the daughter.· No, he used some pretty outrageous emotional blackmail on me.· Some people even resort to emotional blackmail and games, which can end in making everyone unhappy.· This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail.· Be especially wary of using emotional blackmail.· All the rest is emotional blackmail.· It's not emotional blackmail - but once or twice recently, I've felt that I've nearly bought it.
· The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways.· A large emotional charge may also inhibit repeater technique.· The purpose and persistency of the aberree was hindered in ratio to the amount of emotional charge within his engram bank.· The emotional charge of a deja vu was absent.· There is material before it and emotional charge after it which make it unwieldy.· There is emotional charge here somewhere which will discharge.· Nevertheless, it has emotional charge and therapy is slowed by that charge.
· The music of the words is there to be used - but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content.· This film was original, surprising, oddly real in its emotional content, oddly compelling in its naturalness.· You need to be in touch with the emotional content of the relationship.· In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.· The right temporal lobe is particularly interested in the emotional content of the facial expression.· Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content.
· He has no family support for emotional development.· Once again, this progress could be seen as a step up the ladder of emotional development.· It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.· This lack of communication makes it hard for them to reach the milestones described earlier and to achieve healthy emotional development.· We depend upon emotionally-packed images, formed in childhood or reinforced in times of crisis during our emotional development.· D., was willing to discuss the general characteristics of emotional development.· Their emotional development was not understood as it is today.· By the end of my initial meetings with Robbie, I summed up for myself his emotional development.
· In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress.· Simply ... understanding mental illness Everyone experiences emotional distress.· If they are overeating as a result of emotional distress, there are cures.· Furthermore, in 1975 an executive who suffered emotional distress after being demoted was awarded £500 compensation.· Cameron did not satisfy the state law requirements to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.· Whether you are experiencing physical pain, mental anguish or emotional distress, you will feel it deeply at the time.· As you can imagine, this causes us a great deal of humiliation and emotional distress.
· In other children the soiling indicates a marked level of emotional disturbance.· Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance.· No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor health, family disruption, emotional disturbances and death could follow.· Parents of other children who had had polio told them to expect this emotional disturbance to last as long as six months.
· Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy.· Other parents feel drained, with little emotional energy to devote to smiling and cooing at a seemingly uninterested child.· Her husband died about five years ago and she's put all her emotional energy into her job.· Parents who successfully draw their child out are the ones who generate a lot of emotional energy.· Nevertheless, by far the greater part of the emotional energy and imagination of five hundred people was rooted in the Dersingham family.· How much time and emotional energy did team members lose to bracing for surprise attacks from their leader?
· It was without end or beginning, paling all emotional experiences into insignificance.· These ideas from psychotherapy help our background understanding of emotional experiences in the later part of the life-cycle.· After using the relaxation exercise you then conjure up a positive emotional experience.· It was a very emotional experience.· I think the sharing and the emotional experiences are part of the miracle of Lourdes.· So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives.· The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate, although interlinked, parts of the brain.
· He felt that everything was somehow vague and meaningless; nothing had sharp emotional impact.· They had a terrible emotional impact on the children...· But the emotional impact of drastic life changes can never be wholly sorted out in advance.· Sometimes the words themselves mean little, but the emotional impact they convey goes deeper than the intellect.· I guess that had a lot of emotional impact on me.
· The physicality of sport, its speed and grace, along with the emotional intensity of victory and defeat are supremely visual.· In these novels of great emotional intensity, sensibility and sentimentality lead to virtue.· Her emotional intensity is experienced by the other characters as a tyranny from which they must escape if they are to survive.· Others are alarmed by too much emotional intensity.· An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.
· There was never any emotional involvement, just a physical act that offered him some release.· How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?· According to Tormey's theory of Expression, emotional involvement for the actor is minimal.· The same applies to the impression of emotional involvement.· Second, for the fieldworker such studies are extremely demanding in tact, energy, persistence, time and emotional involvement.· As the coffin slides into the furnace, we try to restrict our emotional involvement - sometimes at considerable psychological cost.· It shows her growing emotional involvement and gradually seems to affect her every movement.· This implies that people at work operate as robots, devoid of emotional involvement with one another.
· Physician-assisted suicide, one of the most emotional issues this term, will be argued before the high court in January.· And abortion is a very volatile, emotional issue.· Rough, because of the emotional issues of separation and abandonment and being uprooted.
· The Lower Emotional Centre is where we function daily in our emotional life.· His emotional life had been neither happy nor successful.· It is said that they fill our emotional life and that we are their constant prey.· These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life.· Though Janir and I were close, we rarely discussed our emotional lives.· Their characters do not seem to lead full, emotional lives.· And yet his emotional life remains a mystery to him.
· Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient's expense.· Some teachers and most students have limited intellectual and emotional maturity....· Believe me, intellectual age has little to do with emotional maturity.· They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem, poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer.· This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry.
· Many meetings help individuals and groups to overcome their particular problems or fulfil an emotional need.· They may fulfill their emotional needs with their children instead of finding their own fulfillment.· Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.· We tend to think of a highly emotional child as being inattentive, driven by her emotional needs of the moment.· Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself.· He was lonely and possessed by bottomless emotional needs.· Both were unfitted to meet the spiritual and emotional needs of the masses.· We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time.
· One sometimes thinks of Franck here, but Fauré characteristically reins in his emotional outbursts before they become too vigorous.· The emotional outburst was as far as he would go, however.· I've never had an emotional outburst till now.· Not a Cal Ripken pent-up emotional outburst kind of ovation, mind you, but a nice little round of applause.
· The fact that it doesn't cause you immense emotional pain doesn't mean you're not committed to it.· If you are overweight, then you know what it means to be in emotional pain.· These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel, presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain.· Horton seemed to be in extraordinary emotional pain.· We have this remarkable gift of tears, which will in time ease both our physical and emotional pain.· Like this woman's brother, there were many who found the displacement and emotional pain overpowering.· It may be that her devoted young readers need respite from emotional pain.· Acute emotional pain is a powerful threat.
· If the outcome of this sombre, lovingly detailed film is unsurprising, its emotional power is undeniable.· And it relies on the emotional power of color.· Dionysiac music - music proper - introduced the emotional power of tone, melody and harmony.
· But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems.· The sixth and oldest, a 9-year-old boy, currently is in specialized foster care because of emotional problems.· The emotional problems associated with a possible conflict of interest may need to be recognised.· After all, there is so much talk about emotional problems and abnormality that many people wonder if they need help.· He or she may have emotional problems that result in occasional deliberate binges but that is not necessarily alcoholism.· The organization has a less productive worker and the employee gets to wrestle with a series of physical and emotional problems.· But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems.· Those with extensive past histories suggesting emotional problems also tended to have longer courses.
· An emotional reaction is what the caller wants.· I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.· He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed.· They go through similar identifiable stages of emotional reactions.· Selection will be based on our priorities, on explicit criteria and fundamentally on our emotional reactions.· What is wanted is an immediate, largely emotional reaction.· Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.
· One question in the survey concerned the emotional responses of people to the mentally handicapped.· Organizational fears are emotional responses to core beliefs.· But the androids have developed their own emotional responses and therefore they suffer as the humans do.· Mood disorders such as mania and depression involve inappropriate emotional responses.· Depending upon this determination, we develop appropriate emotional responses.· Irony is used here to mock an emotional response, identified as always female, always stupid.· In Cognitive-Behaviour terms these parents' emotional responses would differ because their appraisals of the situation differ.· A second criticism is that the theory assumes that all emotional response is the same.
· This was a fine piece of filmmaking - uncompromising and direct, with no overplay on the emotional side.· Mr Andrew, with more experience and objectivity, was able to cope with the emotional side more easily.· Instead we have quite enthusiastically lapsed into a chronic dualism where the whole emotional side of the human psyche has been suppressed.· In Chapter 5 we will look at the stresses and emotional side of the journey.
· I can sense your emotional state.· You may also notice that your child likes to maintain a fairly low-key emotional state.· It was certainly not a highly emotional state, nor was it an abandonment of old modes of perception.· Liquid Valium Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state that differs from related states such as fear, aggression, and confusion.· This has considerable significance for the communication of emotional states and personal interaction.· In other words, meaning is a highly important component element in the labelling of emotional states.· It must be virtually impossible for a dolphin to hide its inner emotional state.· Throughout they have to be aware of each player's emotional state.
· Be prepared to reconsider the likelihood of emotional stresses and strains.· Hemifacial spasm is not psychogenic as was commonly thought in the past, although it may be aggravated by emotional stress.· A person who is mentally ill has a temporary ailment, a condition brought about by emotional stress.· Also the emotional stress placed on families with special-needs children can bring on abuse or neglect.· Not surprisingly, most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect, notably that of emotional stress.· Drugs, hormones, food, distension, and emotional stress elicit exaggerated motor responses.· It all caused me severe emotional stress and a career setback.· It is this subjective evaluation that determines whether retirement results in personal satisfaction or emotional stress.
· It's an emotional support from my boyfriend, sister, father.· In certain situations, the continuous emotional support may have a deeper therapeutic effect.· In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.· Finally, the managers received critical emotional support from peers.· In most training schools little or no individual emotional support is available.· While separating these activities analytically from other major processes, like emotional support, it does this for justifiable theoretical reasons.· Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before.· We believe emotional support is an essential ingredient for every laboring woman.
· Considering the possibility of emotional trauma resulting from such a programme is crucial.· No one was killed or even harmed, except for the emotional trauma caused by the exaggerated reports of peril.· Interestingly, only one of the nine families with an affected child had an above average level of emotional trauma.· The emotional trauma caused her to be briefly hospitalized.· So your Higher Self lovingly sends you an emotional trauma, in the hope that this might release the blocked-up emotions.· For all her bravery and determination, she is not over the emotional trauma of being raped.
· He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters - from one set of emotional turmoil to another.· In addition to their own emotional turmoil, parents must cope with the demands and expectations of those around them.· It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose.· All of these issues can be a source of great emotional turmoil to many people.· These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing.· So Mimi walked out, and suddenly he faced a kind of emotional turmoil he had never before experienced.· It is believed to contain explosive scenes - including Di's alleged suicide bids, emotional turmoil and friendships with other men.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Losing my family left me an emotional cripple.
- But Howard's performance also suggests that Higgins is an emotional cripple.
- Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples.
WORD FAMILYnounemotionemotionalismadjectiveemotional ≠ unemotionalemotiveadverbemotionallyemotivelyverbemote
1[only before noun] relating to your feelings or how you control them: She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me. Ann suffered from depression and a number of other emotional problems. the physical and emotional state of the patient2making people have strong feelings: Abortion is a very emotional issue. The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us.3having strong feelings and showing them to other people, especially by cryingget/become emotional He became very emotional when we had to leave.4influenced by what you feel, rather than what you know: an emotional response to the problem—emotionally adverb: Nursing is an emotionally and physically demanding job.THESAURUS– Meaning 2causing strong feelingsemotional causing people to have strong feelings – used especially about experiences, speeches, or subjects that people have strong feelings about: · Returning home after a year in hospital was an emotional experience for Katy.· He gave an emotional speech at the funeral.· It was a very emotional moment.· Abortion rights is a highly emotional issue.emotive used about issues or language that make people have strong feelings: · Fox hunting is a very emotive issue in Britain.· ‘Indoctrination’ is rather an emotive word.moving making you feel strong feelings of sadness or sympathy: · Kelly’s book about her illness is deeply moving.· a moving filmtouching making you feel slightly emotional – used especially when someone does something that shows how much they care about another person: · Your loyalty is very touching.· My son phoned me to wish me good luck, which was a touching gesture.poignant making you feel strong feelings of sadness or pity, especially when you remember something in the past: · Her youthful expression is a poignant reminder of the passing of time.sentimental (also schmaltzy) informal dealing with emotions such as love and sadness in a way that seems silly: · He found the film too sentimental.· a schmaltzy comedy