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Emotional   /ɪmˈoʊʃənəl/  /ˈimoʊʃənəl/   Listen
Emotional

adjective
1.
Determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason.
2.
Of more than usual emotion.
3.
Of or pertaining to emotion.  "An emotional crisis"
4.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion.  Synonyms: aroused, excited, worked up.  "She was worked up about all the noise"



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"Emotional" Quotes from Famous Books



... restaurants, in the streets, in their segregated quarters—women who, however they may be sentimentalized about and however irresponsible they may be for their own condition, are, as a matter of fact, ignorant, stupid, silly, and dirty. Yet on them was squandered the emotional life of ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvitski and began to walk up and down ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... and knocking in vain. Howe was a statesman, with his head full of ideas of Imperial consolidation. His was a great wild heart, deeply touched indeed with ambition, 'the last infirmity of noble minds,' but deeply conscious also of great powers, emotional and intellectual. Small wonder that he raged as he felt that to reach his goal he had to crawl through so narrow a portal, had to abase himself before well-meaning mediocrities like ...
— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
... "These emotional scenes are rather exhausting. Do you mind calling the hotel 'boy' and ordering a cocktail for me? You ought to have one yourself. I suppose, like all men, you hate scenes. Then you should be grateful to me for saving you from that spiteful little ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... indicates the gradual advance that was being made to greater ease and freedom; his lines are not weighted with sounding words, nor is the 'privilege of metre' restricted to the expression of beautiful, wise or emotional thought, as was commonly the case elsewhere. The country freshness of his lyrics has been already praised. Altogether, despite the slight amount of his work in drama, Nash is not a dramatist to be dismissed with a mere expression of indifference or contempt. ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne


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