emotional

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Thân thiện

He gets emotional during the movie's happy ending.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or characterized by emotion: Pertaining to feelings, moods, or states of mind.
   • Easily affected by or showing strong feelings: Describes a person who experiences or expresses emotions readily and intensely.
   • Arousing or designed to arouse strong feelings: Describing something that evokes an emotional response.

Examples

• Relating to emotion:
  • She is seeking help for her emotional well-being.
  • The film had a powerful emotional impact on the audience.
• Easily affected by feelings:
  • He is a very emotional person who cries easily at sad movies.
  • Don't be so emotional; try to think about it logically.
• Arousing strong feelings:
  • It was an emotional farewell as she left for college.
  • The singer gave an emotional performance of the national anthem.

Advanced Usage

• "Emotional intelligence": The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
  • Success in leadership often depends on high emotional intelligence.
• "Emotional support": Comfort and reassurance provided to someone.
  • The therapy dog offers emotional support to patients.

Variants and Related Words

• Emotion (n): A strong feeling such as joy, anger, or sadness.
  • Love is a powerful emotion.
• Emotionally (adv): In a way that relates to emotions.
  • He reacted emotionally to the news.
• Emotionless (adj): Lacking emotion; not showing feeling.
  • Her face was emotionless during the trial.

Synonyms

• Sentimental: Prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
• Passionate: Showing or caused by strong feelings or beliefs.
• Affective: Relating to moods, feelings, and attitudes.

Antonyms

• Unemotional: Not having or showing strong feelings.
• Logical: Based on clear, rational thought rather than emotion.
• Detached: Separate or disconnected, especially in an emotional sense.

Related Phrases

• Emotional baggage: Accumulated feelings of hurt, anger, or insecurity from past experiences.
  • He carries a lot of emotional baggage from his childhood.
• Emotional rollercoaster: A situation that causes alternating periods of intense and varied emotions.
  • The past week has been an emotional rollercoaster.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
   • he would become emotional over nothing at all
   • she was worked up about all the noise
2. of or pertaining to emotion
   • emotional health
   • an emotional crisis
3. of more than usual emotion
   • his behavior was highly emotional
4. determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
   • it was an emotional judgment

Từ đồng nghĩa

• aroused
• excited
• worked up