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Emotional   /ɪmˈoʊʃənəl/  /ˈimoʊʃənəl/   Listen
Emotional

adjective
1.
Determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason.  Antonym: cerebral.
2.
Of more than usual emotion.  Antonym: unemotional.
3.
Of or pertaining to emotion.  "An emotional crisis"
4.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion.  Synonyms: aroused, excited, worked up.  "She was worked up about all the noise"



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"Emotional" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eyes of the emotional Nellie, but she stepped across the brief intervening space and laid her hand on ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... may put it at that if you like. Maybe it wouldn't have been just the square thing to do if you'd been a different sort of man—but you wanted to be taught that you couldn't have all the fun of flirtation on your side, and I wasn't afraid the emotional strain was going to shatter you up to any serious extent. Now it's left off amusing me, and I guess it's time to stop. I'm as perfectly aware as I can be that you've been searching around for some ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 • Various
... there is probably no better mode of self-expression and no better way of waking up people emotionally and socially than to engage them in singing. The importance of singing, to secure good and right emotional attitudes toward life and mankind, is indicated in the saying, "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes her laws." The importance of singing is recognized to a much greater extent in foreign countries, notably in Germany, than in America. ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy
... evil, for Noah was assured of safety—but that godly reverence and happy fear which dwells with faith, and secures precise obedience. Learn that a faith which does not work on the feelings is a very poor thing. Some Christian people have a great horror of emotional religion. Unemotional religion is a great deal worse. The road by which faith gets at the hands is through the heart. And he who believes but feels nothing, will do exactly as much as he feels, and probably does not really believe ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... of introspection. First came the almost paralysing sense of responsibility. He must keep, not only awake, but alert to the slightest sound, the slightest movement. Lives of men depended on his vigilance. A man can't screw himself up to this beautifully emotional pitch for very long and be an efficient sentry. If he did, he would challenge mice and shoot at cloud-shadows and bring the deuce of a commotion about his ears. And this Doggie, who did not lack ordinary intelligence, realized. So he strove to think ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke


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