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Sentimental

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

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Emotional 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Emotional 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Tender 84% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Tender 84% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Sentiment 74% connected

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sentiment 74% connected

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sentimentality 74% connected

The quality or state of being sentimental.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sentimentality 74% connected

The quality or state of being sentimental.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bathetic 92% connected

Having the character of bathos.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Maudlin 92% connected

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mawkish 92% connected

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mushy 92% connected

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sappy 92% connected

Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slushy 92% connected

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soppy 92% connected

Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soupy 92% connected

Resembling soup; souplike.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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