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UK
/ɪmˈəʊʃənəl/
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[ US /ˈiˌmoʊʃənəɫ, ɪˈmoʊʃənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈiˌmoʊʃənəɫ, ɪˈmoʊʃənəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(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
- The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
- 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.
- Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
- 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.
- If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
- Family dislocation has obvious social and emotional costs, especially for the children who lose a parent and often a source of income.
- In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
- This continued in to the dressing rooms at half-time where coach Delio Rossi had no choice but to hook the emotional Azzuri international, claiming he was 'inconsolable'. Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge
