sentimentalist
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7.5
- noun
- /ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪst/
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sentimentalista
- We are all sentimentalists at heart, and the boy's story had touched me.
Examples
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You're a dreadful sentimentalist.
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Ringo's just a sentimentalist.
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Why did I have to marry a sentimentalist?
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Just call me an old sentimentalist.
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Max was a real sentimentalist.
Fiction book (1995) -
- I'm quite a sentimentalist myself.
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You're a sentimentalist at heart, Tim.
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We cannot afford to become sentimentalists.
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"I was right: you are a rank sentimentalist," he exclaimed.
Fiction book (1998) -
My friend is a true sentimentalist; he keeps every letter and gift he has ever received.
Synonyms
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5.8
A person who shows strong feelings and is easily moved
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3.3
A person who has strong feelings easily and often
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8.3
A person with strong, dreamy feelings about love and beauty
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9.9
A person who shows too much love in a silly, naive way
A person who is not brave and acts weak
Antonyms
How Sentimental
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6.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
sentimentalist = sentimental (transparent) = sentiment + al + ist
Formation from the adjective 'sentimental' with the agentive suffix '-ist' is a regular and predictable derivation.
Etymology
Sentimentalist comes from sentiment, which is built on an old root meaning 'to feel' and is the same idea behind the English word sense. So a sentimentalist is someone who feels emotions strongly and often too easily.