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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, fired up, flaming, furious, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, overemotional, passionate, perfervid, powerful, profound, red-hot, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed, steamed up, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, white-hot, wild about, worked up, zealous |
| Notes: | impassioned means characterized by intense emotion or full of passion, while impassive means having or revealing little emotion |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, soft, softhearted, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
| Antonyms: | hard-hearted, indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, unromantic, unsentimental |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | schmaltzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sobby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soupy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tear-jerking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy*, effusive, gushing, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mawkish, moonstruck, mushy, nostalgic, overacted, overemotional, passionate, pathetic, romantic, rosewater, saccharine*, sappy*, schmaltzy, silly, simpering, sloppy*, slushy, soapy, sobby, soft, softhearted, soppy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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