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Definition of "sentimental" []

  • Characterized or swayed by sentiment. (adjective)
  • Affectedly or extravagantly emotional. (adjective)
  • Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism. (adjective)
  • Appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings: sentimental music. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sentimental" in a sentence
  • "Whereas the term "sentimental" can be used more often than not to hint at an indulgence in the emotionality it can imply, when speaking of a movie it might refer to the film being used to pull on the heartstrings and provoke the tear ducts of the audience in a contrived and calculated manner."
  • "I went back to the Philippines with MacArthur on his final journey there in 1961, what he called his sentimental journey."
  • "He would have liked to have left them behind altogether, and even tried to laugh Beth out of what he called her sentimental attachment to odds and ends; but as most of the things had belonged to Aunt Victoria, she took his ridicule so ill that he wisely let the subject drop."