emotional
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3.0
- adjective
- /ɪˈmoʊʃənl/
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emocional
- She felt an emotional connection with the characters in the book.
- emotional support
- emotional abuse
- emotional exhaustion
I love the mental and emotional effect of planning.
- I love the mental and emotional effect of planning.
- But like the the it's an emotional journey in a way.
- And as a rule, here is what emotional immaturity is not.
- Everyone answers one to three questions that are emotional in in origin.
- And this round piece here is your emotional cortex, your limbic area.
- What role does emotional stress play on our gut health?
- Strength, mental strength, physical strength, emotional strength, Resiliency, right.
- So it was psychological, verbal and emotional abuse and neglect.
- I understand the emotional core of what he is saying.
- To indulging in, in in this kind of emotional landscape.
- And, you know, that's the, you know, emotional landscape that I inherited.
- But for all kinds of mostly emotional reasons, we don't.
- So another human is in emotional pain, right?
- And if you have a high EQ emotional quotient, that's cool too.
Examples
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If you get too emotional, it'll change the chemistry in your brain.
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The movie's emotional scenes brought many audience members to tears.
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I understand the emotional core of what he is saying.
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That night was, in fact, a deeply emotional time for all of them.
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Every scene has to have a kind of emotional motivation.
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In the hearts of some Vietnamese, there is always some emotional conflict connected with the United States.
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Genuine brands focus on the functional and emotional benefits for their customers.
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Ask the students to discuss how timbre affects the emotional content of the music.
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It didn't seem to have any emotional impact on him whatsoever.
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How do adult educators find the exotic in the familiar and the emotional in the mundane?
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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7.8
Showing strong natural feelings rather than clear thought
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8.6
Showing strong feelings rather than careful thought
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6.0
Causes strong feelings, often sadness or joy
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6.8
Relating to feelings or emotions
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
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6.2
Old feelings and problems from the past that still affect how you feel or act
- Specialized
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4.1
The ability to notice, understand, and manage your own feelings and those of other people
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6.3
A severe time when someone cannot manage daily life because of strong feelings
- Specialized
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5.1
A mental condition that causes strong, long-lasting problems with feelings, not caused by clear brain damage
- Slur
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9.6
An insulting way to describe a person who has trouble feeling or showing feelings because of past hurt
- Specialized
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7.4
A mental illness that causes big changes in mood and feeling
- Formal
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6.0
A US school label under the law for students whose strong feelings or behavior problems hurt learning
An emotional reaction you learn when something is often linked with a good or bad event
- Offensive
A person who often takes on other people's feelings without getting help
- Specialized
A computer program or device that notices and reacts to human feelings
- Literature
Used to show someone is drunk without saying so, especially in British English
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emotional comes from the Latin parts em- meaning 'out' and movere meaning 'to move', the same root as the English word move. So when something is emotional it is caused by feelings that 'move' the mind rather than by logic.