Emotional (G11-12)

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  1. affecting
    arousing emotion
  2. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  3. bathetic
    very sentimental or emotional
  4. charged
    fraught with great emotion
  5. cloying
    overly sweet
  6. demonstrative
    given to or marked by the open expression of emotion
  7. dramatic
    suitable to or characteristic of stage performance
  8. drippy
    very sentimental or emotional
  9. emotive
    characterized by feeling
  10. excitable
    responding quickly with strong emotion or agitation
  11. fervent
    characterized by intense emotion
  12. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  13. fiery
    characterized by intense emotion
  14. heartrending
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  15. heated
    marked by emotional heat; vehement
  16. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  17. hokey
    very sentimental or emotional
  18. hot-blooded
    prone to emotion
  19. hysterical
    marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
  20. impassioned
    characterized by intense emotion
  21. kitschy
    very sentimental or emotional
  22. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  23. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  24. melodramatic
    having excitement and emotional appeal
  25. moving
    arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
  26. mushy
    very sentimental or emotional
  27. overwrought
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  28. passionate
    having or expressing strong emotions
  29. poignant
    arousing powerful emotions, especially pity or sadness
  30. powerful
    having great influence
  31. saccharine
    overly sweet
  32. sappy
    very sentimental or emotional
  33. schmaltzy
    very sentimental or emotional
  34. sensitive
    being susceptible to the attitudes or feelings of others
  35. sentimental
    very sentimental or emotional
  36. slushy
    very sentimental or emotional
  37. soppy
    very sentimental or emotional
  38. soul-stirring
    exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions
  39. soupy
    very sentimental or emotional
  40. stirring
    exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions
  41. temperamental
    relating to or caused by excessive emotionalism
  42. tempestuous
    characterized by violent emotions or behavior
  43. tender
    given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
  44. torrid
    characterized by intense emotion
  45. touching
    arousing affect
  46. uplifting
    cheerfully encouraging
  47. worked up
    (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
Created on Fri Mar 15 13:23:47 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Mar 15 13:49:03 EDT 2024)

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