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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emotional \E*mo"tion*al\, adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
emotional
adjective
1: determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it was an emotional judgment" [ant: {cerebral}]
2: of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" [ant: {unemotional}]
3: of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis"
4: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn: {effusive}, {gushing(a)}, {gushy}]
5: of persons; excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise" [syn: {aroused}, {excited}, {worked up}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotional": affecting, affectional, affective, agitable, agitated, ardent, characteristic, constitutional, demonstrative, dispositional, edgy, emote, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotionable, emotionalize, emotionally unstable, emotiovascular, emotive, enthusiastic, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, feeling, fervent, fervid, frantic, glandular, gut, heartfelt, heated, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hotheaded, hysterical, impassioned, inflammable, innate, intellectual, irascible, irrational, irritable, mental, mettlesome, moving, nervous, of soul, overdemonstrative, passionate, perturbable, poignant, prickly, ranting, responsive, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, skittish, softhearted, soulful, spiritual, startlish, stirring, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tense, touching, touchy, visceral, volatile, volcanic, warm, wild, zealous
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