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sentimental 音标拼音: [s ,ɛntəm'ɛntəl] [s ,ɛnəm'ɛntəl] [s ,ɛntəm'ɛnəl] [s ,ɛnəm'ɛnəl] a. 感伤性的,感情脆弱的 感伤性的,感情脆弱的 sentimental adj 1: given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality 2: effusively or insincerely emotional; " a bathetic novel"; " maudlin expressions of sympathy"; " mushy effusiveness"; " a schmaltzy song"; " sentimental soap operas"; " slushy poetry" [ synonym: { bathetic}, { drippy}, { hokey}, { maudlin}, { mawkish}, { kitschy}, { mushy}, { schmaltzy}, { schmalzy}, { sentimental}, { soppy}, { soupy}, { slushy}] Sentimental \ Sen` ti* men" tal\, a. [ Cf. F. sentimental.] 1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [ Obsoles.] [ 1913 Webster] Nay, ev' n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. -- Whitehead. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. -- Whately. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Romantic. Usage: { Sentimental}, { Romantic}. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. " Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously." -- V. Knox. " I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be." -- Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster] 119 Moby Thesaurus words for " sentimental": adoring, affectionate, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, compassionate, conjugal, corny, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, demonstrative, devoted, dizzy, doting, dreamy, drippy, dumb, emotional, faithful, fatuitous, fatuous, filial, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing, gushy, husbandly, icky, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, jejune, kooky, languishing, loony, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, mad, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, moist, moonstruck, moronic, mushy, namby- pamby, nauseating, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, parental, passionate, paternal, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, schoolgirlish, screwy, senseless, sentimentalized, sickening, silly, simpering, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, sticky, stupid, sweet, sympathetic, syrupy, tacky, tear- jerking, tearful, teary, tender, thoughtless, uxorious, vapid, wacky, warm- hearted, weepy, wet, wifely, witless, yucky
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