Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to emotion.
  • adjective Readily affected with or stirred by emotion.
  • adjective Arousing or intended to arouse the emotions.
  • adjective Marked by or exhibiting emotion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of emotion.
  • Characterized by emotion; attended by or producing emotion; subject to emotion: as, an emotional poem; an emotional temperament.
  • Employing appeal to the emotions; aiming at the production of emotion as an object: as, an emotional orator or harangue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to the emotions.
  • adjective Characterised by emotion.
  • adjective Determined by emotion rather than reason.
  • adjective Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  • adjective Easily affected by emotion.
  • adjective Readily displaying emotion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to emotion
  • adjective determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
  • adjective of more than usual emotion
  • adjective (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

emotion +‎ -al

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Examples

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  • According to an internal June 2, 2003, FDA email provided to this author by Baum Hedlund, written by Dr Russell Katz to Dr Andrew Mosholder, the FDA had just learned about the increased suicide rate hidden under the term emotional lability and realized that Glaxo had pulled a fast one.

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