The meaning of SENTIMENTAL is marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism. How to use sentimental in a sentence.

Sentimental means expressing, appealing to, or being moved by sensitive or tender emotions, such as love, nostalgia, or pity. The state or quality of being sentimental is sentimentality.

A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based …

Someone or something that is sentimental feels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish. It's a very sentimental play. Childhood had less freedom and joy …

Definition of sentimental adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. connected with your emotions, rather than reason. He has a strong sentimental attachment to the place. She kept the …

5 days ago · sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental) Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially …

Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way: "He had no sentimental illusions about poverty's virtues" (Sherill Tippins).

of or relating to the tender emotions, esp. excessively: sentimental dreams of love and marriage. embarrassingly emotional: Let's not get too sentimental about our relationship.

Sentimental describes a person who relies on emotions more than reason, or a novel or film that is overly emotional. Derived from the Latin verb, sentire "to feel," sentimental always implies that the …

sentimental adjective (FEELING) Add to word list showing kind feelings such as sympathy, love, etc, especially in a silly way: a sentimental song