emotionaladjective
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/B2 relating to the emotions:
a child's emotional development
My doctor said the problem was more emotional than physical.
Amnesia can be caused by emotional trauma.
B2 having and expressing strong feelings:
He's a very emotional man.
I felt quite emotional during the wedding ceremony.
He became very emotional when I told him I was pregnant.
The president has made an emotional plea for the killing to stop.
More examples
- The missing child's distraught parents made an emotional appeal for information on TV.
- She claimed that the way she had been treated at work had caused her extreme emotional and psychological distress.
- People generally think that women are more emotional than men, but in my experience that often isn't the case.
- It can be difficult to respond to children's emotional needs because we have got used to disregarding our own.
- The memorial service was a very emotional occasion for all of us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feelings - general words
- aura
- charged
- emotionalism
- feeling
- free-floating
- himself
- in your heart of hearts idiom
- infect
- love-hate relationship
- myself
- ripple
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- soul
- soulful
- stab
- tinge
- tingle
- trip
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Strong feelings
emotionally
adverb uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl.i/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl.i/
B2
She spoke emotionally about her experiences as a war correspondent.
Many children have become emotionally disturbed as a result of the abuse they have suffered.
an emotionally charged issue (= causing strong feelings)