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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SENTIMENT'AL, a.
1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.
2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.
3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1749 1. a. marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism b. resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought <a sentimental attachment> <a sentimental favorite> 2. having an excess of sentiment or sensibility • sentimentally adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of or characterized by sentiment. 2 showing or affected by emotion rather than reason. 3 appealing to sentiment. Phrases and idioms: sentimental value the value of a thing to a particular person because of its associations. Derivatives: sentimentalism n. sentimentalist n. sentimentality n. sentimentalize v.intr. & tr. (also -ise). sentimentalization n. sentimentally adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sentimental Sen`ti*men"tal, a. [Cf. F. sentimental.] 1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. --Whitehead. 2. 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. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. --Whately. 3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. Syn: Romantic. Usage: Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. ``Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously.'' --V. Knox. ``I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be.'' --Bp. Stillingfleet.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone or something that is sentimental feels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past... ADJ • sentimentally Childhood had less freedom and joy than we sentimentally attribute to it. ADV: usu ADV with v • sentimentality In this book there is no sentimentality. 2. Sentimental means relating to or involving feelings such as pity or love, especially for things in the past. Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Tender, impressible, romantic. 2. Sententious, didactic, thoughtful. 3. Pathetic, romantic.

Moby Thesaurus

adoring, affectionate, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, compassionate, conjugal, corny, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, demonstrative, devoted, dizzy, doting, dreamy, drippy, dumb, emotional, faithful, fatuitous, fatuous, filial, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing, gushy, husbandly, icky, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, jejune, kooky, languishing, loony, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, mad, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, moist, moonstruck, moronic, mushy, namby-pamby, nauseating, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, parental, passionate, paternal, romantic, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, schoolgirlish, screwy, senseless, sentimentalized, sickening, silly, simpering, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, sticky, stupid, sweet, sympathetic, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, tearful, teary, tender, thoughtless, uxorious, vapid, wacky, warm-hearted, weepy, wet, wifely, witless, yucky