emotional

See also: emoțional

English

Etymology

From emotion +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/, /iˈmoʊʃənəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃənəl

Adjective

emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)

1. Of or relating to the emotions.

   Synonym: temperamental

   emotional crisis

   emotional lift

   • 2018 November 26, Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 23 April 2019:

     One of the biggest shifts is that much of the conversation about emotional labor has left its original sphere of the workplace and moved to the home.

2. Characterized by emotion.

   Synonym: sentimental

3. Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.

   Synonym: sentimental

   emotional decision

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

     The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).

4. Appealing to or arousing emotion.

   Synonyms: poignant, touching; see also Thesaurus:moving

   emotional speech

5. Easily affected by emotion.

   Synonyms: passionate, perfervid

   She’s an emotional person.

6. Readily displaying emotion.

   Synonyms: demonstrative, effusive

   emotional greeting

7. Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.

   Synonyms: overwhelmed, moved, overcome

   She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.

   I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.

Derived terms

• antiemotional
• emocore
• emosh
• emotional affair
• emotional age
• emotional blackmail
• emotional competence
• emotional cripple
• emotional eating
• emotional hardcore
• emotional incontinence
• emotional intelligence
• emotionalise (also emotionalize)
• emotionalism
• emotionalist
• emotionalistic
• emotionality
• emotionalization
• emotional lability
• emotional labor
• emotional labour
• emotionally
• emotionalness
• emotional pivot
• emotional reasoning
• emotional support animal
• emotional tampon
• hyperemotional
• hypoemotional
• metaemotional
• neuroemotional
• nonemotional
• overemotional
• pseudoemotional
• psychoemotional
• socioemotional
• superemotional
• tired and emotional
• underemotional
• unemotional

Translations

of or relating to the emotions

Bulgarian: чувствен (bg) (čuvstven) Catalan: emocional Chinese: Mandarin: 感情的 (zh) (gǎnqíng de) Czech: emoční, citový (cs) Danish: følelsesmæssig, emotionel Dutch: gevoelsmatig (nl) Esperanto: emocia, afekcia Finnish: tunne-, tunne-elämän (genitive of a noun) French: émotionnel (fr) Galician: emocional (gl) German: emotional (de) Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi) Hungarian: érzelmi (hu), érzelmes (hu), hangulati (hu) Italian: emotivo (it), emozionante (it) Japanese: 感情的 (ja) (かんじょうてき, kanjōteki) Korean: 감성적인 (gamseongjeogin) Latvian: emocionāls Maltese: emozzjonali Norwegian: Bokmål: emosjonell (no), følelsesmessig (no) Nynorsk: emosjonell Occitan: emocional (oc) Polish: emocjonalny (pl), uczuciowy (pl) Portuguese: emocional (pt), emotivo (pt) Romanian: emoțional (ro) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj), чу́вственный (ru) (čúvstvennyj) Spanish: emocional (es) Swahili: simikwa (sw) Swedish: emotionell (sv), känslomässig (sv) Tagalog: madamdamin Turkish: duygusal (tr)

characterised by emotion

Bulgarian: емоционален (bg) (emocionalen) Catalan: emocional Chinese: Mandarin: 感情的 (zh) (gǎnqíng de) Dutch: emotioneel (nl) Finnish: tunteellinen (fi) French: émotionnel (fr) Galician: emocional (gl) German: emotional (de) Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi) Italian: emotivo (it) Japanese: 感情的 (ja) (かんじょうてき, kanjōteki) Latvian: emcionāls Maltese: emozzjonali Maori: whakaaroharoha Polish: emocjonalny (pl), gorący (pl), wrażliwy (pl) Portuguese: emocional (pt), emocionado (pt), emotivo (pt) Romanian: emoțional (ro) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj) Spanish: emocional (es) Swahili: simikwa (sw), simikwa (sw) Swedish: känslosam (sv), känslofylld, känsloladdad Tagalog: madamdamin Turkish: duygusal (tr)

determined by strong emotion rather than strictly logical reasoning

Bulgarian: емоционален (bg) (emocionalen) Catalan: emocional Finnish: tunnepohjainen, tunteeseen perustuva French: émotif (fr) Galician: emocional (gl) German: emotional (de) Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi) Italian: emotivo (it) Maltese: emozzjonali Portuguese: emocional (pt), emotivo (pt) Romanian: emoțional (ro) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj) Spanish: emocional (es), emotivo (es) Swahili: simikwa (sw) Swedish: känslostyrd (sv), emotionell (sv) Tagalog: madamdamin

appealing to or arousing emotion

Bulgarian: вълнуващ (bg) (vǎlnuvašt) Catalan: emocional Finnish: tunteisiin vetoava Galician: emocional (gl) German: emotional (de) Indonesian: emosional (id) Irish: corraitheach Italian: emozionante (it), commovente (it) Latvian: emocionāls Maori: whakaaroharoha Portuguese: emocional (pt), comovente (pt) Romanian: emoționant (ro) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj), волну́ющий (ru) (volnújuščij) Swahili: simikwa (sw)

easily affected by emotion

Catalan: emocional Chinese: Mandarin: 情緒化 / 情绪化 (zh) (qíngxùhuà) Finnish: tunteellinen (fi), herkkätunteinen French: émotif (fr) German: emotional (de) Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi) Indonesian: emosional (id) Italian: emotivo (it), impressionabile (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سۆزدار (ckb) (sozdar) Latvian: emocionāls Maori: panapana Portuguese: emotivo (pt), impressionável Romanian: emoționabil, emotiv (ro) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj), чувстви́тельный (ru) (čuvstvítelʹnyj) Swahili: simikwa (sw) Swedish: känslosam (sv)

readily displaying emotion

Bulgarian: емоционален (bg) (emocionalen) Catalan: emocional Finnish: tunteellinen (fi), tunnepitoinen German: emotional (de) Hebrew: רִגְשִׁי (rigshi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سۆزدار (ckb) (sozdar) Latvian: emocionāls Maltese: emozzjonali Maori: whakaroharoha, panapana Portuguese: emotivo (pt) Russian: эмоциона́льный (ru) (emocionálʹnyj) Swahili: simikwa (sw) Swedish: känslofull (sv)

Noun

emotional (plural emotionals)

1. An emotional person

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany):

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

emotional (strong nominative masculine singular emotionaler, comparative emotionaler, superlative am emotionalsten)

1. emotional

Declension

Positive forms of emotional

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist emotional	sie ist emotional	es ist emotional	sie sind emotional
strong declension (without article)	nominative	emotionaler	emotionale	emotionales	emotionale
	genitive	emotionalen	emotionaler	emotionalen	emotionaler
	dative	emotionalem	emotionaler	emotionalem	emotionalen
	accusative	emotionalen	emotionale	emotionales	emotionale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der emotionale	die emotionale	das emotionale	die emotionalen
	genitive	des emotionalen	der emotionalen	des emotionalen	der emotionalen
	dative	dem emotionalen	der emotionalen	dem emotionalen	den emotionalen
	accusative	den emotionalen	die emotionale	das emotionale	die emotionalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein emotionaler	eine emotionale	ein emotionales	(keine) emotionalen
	genitive	eines emotionalen	einer emotionalen	eines emotionalen	(keiner) emotionalen
	dative	einem emotionalen	einer emotionalen	einem emotionalen	(keinen) emotionalen
	accusative	einen emotionalen	eine emotionale	ein emotionales	(keine) emotionalen

Comparative forms of emotional

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist emotionaler	sie ist emotionaler	es ist emotionaler	sie sind emotionaler
strong declension (without article)	nominative	emotionalerer	emotionalere	emotionaleres	emotionalere
	genitive	emotionaleren	emotionalerer	emotionaleren	emotionalerer
	dative	emotionalerem	emotionalerer	emotionalerem	emotionaleren
	accusative	emotionaleren	emotionalere	emotionaleres	emotionalere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der emotionalere	die emotionalere	das emotionalere	die emotionaleren
	genitive	des emotionaleren	der emotionaleren	des emotionaleren	der emotionaleren
	dative	dem emotionaleren	der emotionaleren	dem emotionaleren	den emotionaleren
	accusative	den emotionaleren	die emotionalere	das emotionalere	die emotionaleren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein emotionalerer	eine emotionalere	ein emotionaleres	(keine) emotionaleren
	genitive	eines emotionaleren	einer emotionaleren	eines emotionaleren	(keiner) emotionaleren
	dative	einem emotionaleren	einer emotionaleren	einem emotionaleren	(keinen) emotionaleren
	accusative	einen emotionaleren	eine emotionalere	ein emotionaleres	(keine) emotionaleren

Superlative forms of emotional

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am emotionalsten	sie ist am emotionalsten	es ist am emotionalsten	sie sind am emotionalsten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	emotionalster	emotionalste	emotionalstes	emotionalste
	genitive	emotionalsten	emotionalster	emotionalsten	emotionalster
	dative	emotionalstem	emotionalster	emotionalstem	emotionalsten
	accusative	emotionalsten	emotionalste	emotionalstes	emotionalste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der emotionalste	die emotionalste	das emotionalste	die emotionalsten
	genitive	des emotionalsten	der emotionalsten	des emotionalsten	der emotionalsten
	dative	dem emotionalsten	der emotionalsten	dem emotionalsten	den emotionalsten
	accusative	den emotionalsten	die emotionalste	das emotionalste	die emotionalsten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein emotionalster	eine emotionalste	ein emotionalstes	(keine) emotionalsten
	genitive	eines emotionalsten	einer emotionalsten	eines emotionalsten	(keiner) emotionalsten
	dative	einem emotionalsten	einer emotionalsten	einem emotionalsten	(keinen) emotionalsten
	accusative	einen emotionalsten	eine emotionalste	ein emotionalstes	(keine) emotionalsten

Related terms

• Emotion

Further reading

• “emotional” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “emotional” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “emotional” in Duden online