Word Study
emotional
CIDE DICTIONARY
emotional, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
emotional, adj.
1 of or relating to the emotions.
2 (of a person) liable to excessive emotion.
3 expressing or based on emotion (an emotional appeal).
4 likely to excite emotion (an emotional issue).
1 of or relating to the emotions.
2 (of a person) liable to excessive emotion.
3 expressing or based on emotion (an emotional appeal).
4 likely to excite emotion (an emotional issue).
Derivative
emotionalism n. emotionalist n. emotionality n. emotionalize v.tr. (also -ise). emotionally adv.
THESAURUS
emotional
affecting, affectional, affective, agitable, agitated, ardent, characteristic, constitutional, demonstrative, dispositional, edgy, emote, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotionable, emotionalize, emotionally unstable, emotiovascular, emotive, enthusiastic, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, feeling, fervent, fervid, frantic, glandular, gut, heartfelt, heated, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hotheaded, hysterical, impassioned, inflammable, innate, intellectual, irascible, irrational, irritable, mental, mettlesome, moving, nervous, of soul, overdemonstrative, passionate, perturbable, poignant, prickly, ranting, responsive, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, skittish, softhearted, soulful, spiritual, startlish, stirring, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tense, touching, touchy, visceral, volatile, volcanic, warm, wild, zealousROGET THESAURUS
emotional
Feeling
N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).For further exploring for "emotional" in Webster Dictionary Online