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for emotional
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Emotional \E*mo"tion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable;
easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
emotional
adj 1: determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it
was an emotional judgment" [ant: cerebral,
intellectual]
2: of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly
emotional" [ant: unemotional]
3: of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an
emotional crisis"
4: (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would
become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up
about all the noise" [syn: aroused, emotional, excited,
worked up]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotional":
affecting, affectional, affective, agitable, agitated, ardent,
characteristic, constitutional, demonstrative, dispositional, edgy,
emote, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotionable, emotionalize,
emotionally unstable, emotiovascular, emotive, enthusiastic,
eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, feeling, fervent, fervid,
frantic, glandular, gut, heartfelt, heated, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hotheaded,
hysterical, impassioned, inflammable, innate, intellectual,
irascible, irrational, irritable, mental, mettlesome, moving,
nervous, of soul, overdemonstrative, passionate, perturbable,
poignant, prickly, ranting, responsive, rhapsodic, rhapsodical,
sensitive, sentient, sentimental, skittish, softhearted, soulful,
spiritual, startlish, stirring, susceptible, susceptive,
sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tense, touching, touchy,
visceral, volatile, volcanic, warm, wild, zealous
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