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| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirring, susceptible, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous, emotive, falling apart, hot-blooded, roused, stirred, tear-jerking |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | affective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning feelings and intuition |
| Synonyms: | emotional, feeling, intuitive, visceral, emotive, noncognitive, perceptual |
| Main Entry: | dramatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting, moving |
| Synonyms: | affecting, breathtaking, comic, effective, emotional, expressive, farcical, histrionic, impressive, melodramatic, powerful, sensational, startling, striking, sudden, tense, theatrical, thespian, thrilling, tragic, vivid, climactic, electrifying, suspenseful, tragicomic |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, unexciting, unmoving, usual, comedic, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | excitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset or inspired |
| Synonyms: | demonstrative, edgy, emotional, enthusiastic, fidgety, fierce, fiery, hasty, high-strung, hot-tempered, hysterical, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, intolerant, irascible, mercurial, moody, nervous, neurotic, passionate, peevish, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, restless, sensitive, skittish, susceptible, temperamental, testy, touchy, uncontrolled, uneasy, vehement, violent, volatile, agitable, alarmable, galvanic, hot-headed, overzealous, short fused, volcanic |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, insensitive, laid-back, passive, uninspired, easy-going, unexcitable |
| Main Entry: | fervent/fervid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, excited |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, fiery, glowing, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, impassioned, intense, passionate, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous, dying to, falling all over oneself, go great guns, hot-blooded, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | cool, discouraged, dispirited, impassive, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive |
| Synonyms: | basic, deep-seated, emotional, heartfelt, innate, inner, instinctive, interior, internal, intimate, involuntary, natural, spontaneous, unthinking, visceral, viscerous |
| Antonyms: | material, physical |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, carried away, convulsive, fuming, in a fit, maddened, seething, unnerved, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, serene, controlled |
| Main Entry: | impulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to act without thought |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, ad-lib*, automatic, careless, devil-may-care*, emotional, extemporaneous, flaky*, hasty, headlong, impetuous, instinctive, intuitive, involuntary, mad, offhand, passionate, precipitate, quick, rash, spontaneous, sudden, swift, unexpected, unpredictable, unpremeditated, up-and-down*, violent, gone off deep end, hot-and-cold, jumping the gun, unconsidered, unmeditated, unprompted, winging it |
| Antonyms: | cautious, considering, heedful, thoughtful, wise, premeditative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intuitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instinctive |
| Synonyms: | automatic, direct, emotional, habitual, immediate, inherent, innate, involuntary, natural, perceptive, spontaneous, understood, untaught, visceral, instinctual, unreflecting |
| Antonyms: | calculated, taught, meditated, reasoned |
| Main Entry: | lyrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musical |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, dulcet, emotional, euphonious, expressive, harmonious, melodic, melodious, orchestral, passionate, pleasing, poetic, rhapsodic, rhythmic, soulful, symphonic, tuneful, blending, chiming, choral, lilting, operatic, songful, songlike, sweet-sounding, symphonious |
| Main Entry: | overwrought |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted and excited |
| Synonyms: | affected, agitated, beside oneself*, crazy, distracted, emotional, excitable, frantic, high*, nervous, neurotic, on edge*, overexcited, overworked, spent, tense, tired, uneasy, unstrung, uptight*, weary, wired, worn, all shook up, fired-up, flipped out, freaked-out, hot under collar, hot-and-bothered, hyper, in a state, keyed-up, overstrung, steamed up, stirred, strung-out, worked-up, wound-up |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, cool, rested, unruffled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | psychological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the mind |
| Synonyms: | cerebral, emotional, experimental, imaginary, intellectual, mental, subconscious, subjective, unconscious, cognitive, in the mind, intellective, psychical |
| Antonyms: | body, physical |
| Main Entry: | softhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tender |
| Synonyms: | benevolent, big-hearted, charitable, compassionate, considerate, emotional, forgiving, generous, gentle, kind, lenient, merciful, moving, sensitive, sentimental, soft, sympathetic, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted, all heart, bleeding-heart, caring |
| Main Entry: | stirring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, rousing |
| Synonyms: | awakening, dynamic, emotional, exhilarating, heartbreaking, heartrending, inspiring, provoking, stimulating, touching, arousing, electrifying, gripping, inspirational, motivating |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung*, hotheaded*, impatient, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned*, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful, cussed, easily upset, hyper, hypersensitive, in bad mood |
| Antonyms: | easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tempestuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild, stormy |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustery, boisterous, breezy, coarse, emotional, excited, feverish, furious, gusty, heated, hysterical, impassioned, intense, passionate, raging, rough, rugged, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, uncontrolled, unrestrained, violent, windy, blustering, squally, storming |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | tenderhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tender |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, benevolent, bleeding heart*, charitable, compassionate, considerate, emotional, forgiving, gentle, humane, kind, kindhearted, lenient, loving, merciful, mushy*, sensitive, sentimental, soft, softhearted, sweet, sympathetic, thoughtful, understanding, warm, warmhearted, all heart, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fervent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, excited, fervid, fiery, glowing, gung ho, heartfelt, hearty, hot, impassioned, intense, passionate, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, tender, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous, dying to, gotta have, hopped up, hot for, hot-blooded, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, cool, dispassionate, dispirited, indifferent, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | touchy-feely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative |
| Synonyms: | emotional, expressive, gushing, sensitive, tactile, tactual |
| Antonyms: | undemonstrative |
| Main Entry: | demonstrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressive, communicative |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, candid, effusive, emotional, expansive, explanatory, expository, frank, gushing, histrionic, illustrative, indicative, loving, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, plain, profuse, symptomatic, tender, unreserved, unrestrained, warmhearted, evincive, unconstrained |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, inexpressive, reserved, restrained, uncommunicative, unemotional, undemonstrative |
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