Definition of Sentimental

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Sentimental

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

Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.

Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

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Sentimental Quotations

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
James Taylor

Sentimental Translations

sentimental in Dutch is sentimenteel
sentimental in French is sentimental
sentimental in Spanish is sentimental

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