English > emotional: 4 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | Of more than usual emotion. |
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| Example | "his behavior was highly emotional" |
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| Attribute of | emotionality, emotionalism | emotional nature or quality |
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| Narrower | affectional, affective, emotive | Characterized by emotion |
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| bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy | effusively or insincerely emotional |
| cathartic, releasing | emotionally purging (of e.g. art) |
| charged, supercharged | fraught with great emotion |
| funky, low-down | (of jazz / jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues |
| het up | worked up emotionally by anger or excitement |
| hot-blooded | prone to emotion |
| little | small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) |
| lyric, lyrical | Expressing deep emotion |
| mind-blowing | intensely affecting the mind or emotions |
| moody, temperamental | subject to sharply varying moods |
| overemotional, sloppy | excessively or abnormally emotional |
| soulful | Full of or expressing deep emotion |
| warm-toned | Used of music |
| See also | moved, affected, stirred, touched | excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion |
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| moving | Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion |
| passionate | Having or expressing strong emotions |
| warm | psychologically warm |
| Opposite | unemotional | unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion |
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| Nouns | emotionality | emotional nature or quality |
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| Adverbs | emotionally | in an emotional manner |
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