emotionally
- adverb
- /ɪˈmoʊʃənəli/
- During this stage, the individual is emotionally overwhelmed with a range of intense feelings often never experienced before.
- emotionally disturbed
- emotionally disturbed children
- emotionally charged
Can't hurt them unless it's emotionally disturbing to them.
- Can't hurt them unless it's emotionally disturbing to them.
- And this is the case of someone being emotionally unhealthy themselves.
- But I'm not super invested emotionally in the culture wars.
- You don't just change how we emotionally assess risk, right?
- And so I felt emotionally abandoned by my mom.
- Because if you're emotionally upset, you click more.
- How do you have the strength emotionally to be the bigger person?
- They're no longer enslaved emotionally to the past.
- And it was so, so emotionally draining.
- A lot of women can be very emotionally selfish.
- But again, emotionally, she was attached to this career.
- I'd quite like to see Shannon emotionally fulfilled.
- And physically and emotionally, I just am not.
- The last one is him being emotionally selfish.
Examples
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And it was so, so emotionally draining.
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And so I felt emotionally abandoned by my mom.
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How do you have the strength emotionally to be the bigger person?
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So I knew emotionally that I was in a bad way.
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Special education concerns are among the most emotionally charged issues teachers will handle.
Academic text (1999) -
It's been a roller coaster emotionally for me.
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Criteria for effective teaching will continue to be emotionally debated for years to come.
Academic text (1991) -
Nevertheless, HIV infection still presents an emotionally challenging situation for women.
Academic text (2008) -
We need to bury it in the past where it belongs and prevent future generations from being emotionally scarred.
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Many people express themselves emotionally when they talk about their experiences.
Synonyms
In a way that shows very strong feelings and great excitement
Makes people feel deep sadness or pity
Shows deep feeling and moves people
In a way that shows feelings and thoughts clearly
In a way that shows strong feeling
In a clear, open way that shows strong feeling
In a way that relates to feelings
Shows deep, real feeling and care when speaking or acting
In a moving way that makes people feel sad or touched
To speak or write in a way that shows strong feelings
In a warm, honest way that shows real feeling
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emotionally comes from emotion, which comes from the old Latin word emovere meaning 'to move' and shares the same idea as the simple English word move. So to react emotionally is to be 'moved' by feelings, which is why it means 'in a way that involves strong feelings'.