单词 | sentimental |
释义 | sentimental[ sen-tuh-men-tl ] / ˌsɛn təˈmɛn tl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sentimental ON THESAURUS.COM adjectiveexpressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially 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. weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians. characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling. Origin of sentimentalFirst recorded in 1740–50; sentiment + -al1 SYNONYMS FOR sentimental1 romantic, tender, nostalgic; maudlin, bathetic. SEE SYNONYMS FOR sentimental ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR sentimental1, 4 dispassionate. SEE ANTONYMS FOR sentimental ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM sentimentalDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sentimental
British Dictionary definitions for sentimentalsentimental / (ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəl) / adjectivetending to indulge the emotions excessively making a direct appeal to the emotions, esp to romantic feelings relating to or characterized by sentiment Derived forms of sentimentalsentimentally, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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