Dictionary Definition
sentimental adj
1 given to or marked by sentiment or
sentimentality
2 effusively or insincerely emotional; "a
bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas";
"slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy]
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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Derived terms
Quotations
- 1885: Gilbert
& Sullivan, The Mikado,
- Are you in sentimental mood?
- I'll sigh with you.
- Are you in sentimental mood?
- 1944: Doris Day,
Sentimental
Journey,
- Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
- Gonna set my heart at ease.
- Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
- to renew old memories.
- Gonna set my heart at ease.
- Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
Translations
characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or
excess emotion
- German: sentimental
derived from emotion rather than reason
romantic
German
Adjective
Extensive Definition
"Sentimental" is a Porcupine
Tree song. It appears as the fourth track on the 2007 album
Fear
of a Blank Planet.
An early version of the song's chorus can be
found on the track "Normal" from the Nil
Recurring EP, which contains the B-Sides of Fear of a Blank
Planet. There is a musical reference to the Porcupine Tree song
"Trains" as
well.
Personnel
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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