Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized or swayed by sentiment.
- adj. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional.
- adj. Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.
- adj. Appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings: sentimental music.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Swayed, or apt to be swayed, by sentiment; of a tender and susceptible heart; mawkishly tender or susceptible: as, a sentimental person. This quality was highly valued about the third quarter of the eighteenth century, but later was regarded almost with disgust. Hence the word at one time bore a favorable, at a later time an unfavorable implication.
- Containing or characterized by sentiment; appealing to the feelings rather than to reason: as, a sentimental song; sentimental works.
- Synonyms Romantic, Sentimental (see romantic), hysterical, gushing, etc. (in style).
- Of or pertaining to sentimentalism.
Wiktionary
- adj. characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
- adj. derived from emotion rather than reason
- adj. romantic
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolescent Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
- adj. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
- adj. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
- adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
Examples
“Whereas the term "sentimental" can be used more often than not to hint at an indulgence in the emotionality it can imply, when speaking of a movie it might refer to the film being used to pull on the heartstrings and provoke the tear ducts of the audience in a contrived and calculated manner.”
The Huffington Post: Carol Smaldino: A Surprise of Sentiment and 50-50
“I went back to the Philippines with MacArthur on his final journey there in 1961, what he called his sentimental journey.”
“He would have liked to have left them behind altogether, and even tried to laugh Beth out of what he called her sentimental attachment to odds and ends; but as most of the things had belonged to Aunt Victoria, she took his ridicule so ill that he wisely let the subject drop.”
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
“General Botha and General Smuts were ready to concede almost every material point, provided what they called the sentimental objection against race distinction was waived by the Indian community.”
““But isn't that what you call sentimental?” said Vincent.”
“You say 'the sentimental is always a got-up thing,' a 'do at the bottom of it.”
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
“We have already established in these (blog) pages that I don't think "sentimental" is a dirty word -- as long as the emotion is honestly earned, that I adore a good cry -- as long as I don't feel jerked around, and that I consider "old fashioned" a term of art, not an insult.”
“I have no interest in sentimental, saccharine portrayals life's too short for untruths.”
“For the meanings of tears in sentimental fiction see Csengei, "I Will Not Weep.”
“What was it about childhood and homelife that made people weep in sentimental love when they thought about it?”
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