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UK
/ɪmˈəʊʃənəl/
]
[ US /ˈiˌmoʊʃənəɫ, ɪˈmoʊʃənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈiˌmoʊʃənəɫ, ɪˈmoʊʃənəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
he would become emotional over nothing at all
she was worked up about all the noise -
of more than usual emotion
his behavior was highly emotional -
of or pertaining to emotion
emotional health
an emotional crisis -
determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
it was an emotional judgment
How To Use emotional In A Sentence
- Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
- The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
- Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
- The SF - 36 dimension representing role limitations due to emotional problems was dichotomised for analysis, since the original scale contains only four values.
- This was where we weighed anchor from the emotional storm. Times, Sunday Times
- Section Two analyzes the theme choice of his poetry from three directions of emotional sigh, the painfulness of losing family and homeland as well as the feeling of reclusion.
- He is not afraid of letting go of responsibilities and you being his emotional anchor. The Sun
- The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
- But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
- Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
