emotional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English emotional
From emotion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more emotional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emotional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emotionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the emotions.
pos: adj
examples: emotional crisis
emotional lift
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.
gloss: Characterized by emotion.
pos: adj
gloss: Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
pos: adj
examples: emotional decision
The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
gloss: Appealing to or arousing emotion.
pos: adj
examples: emotional speech
gloss: Easily affected by emotion.
pos: adj
examples: She’s an emotional person.
gloss: Readily displaying emotion.
pos: adj
examples: emotional greeting
gloss: Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.
pos: adj
examples: She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.
I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
gloss: An emotional person
pos: noun
Derived words: antiemotional
emocore
emosh
emotional affair
emotional age
emotional blackmail
emotional competence
emotional cripple
emotional disturbance
emotional eating
emotional hardcore
emotional incontinence
emotional intelligence
emotionalise
emotionalism
emotionalist
emotionalistic
emotionality
emotionalization
emotional lability
emotional labor
emotional labour
emotionally
emotionalness
emotional pivot
emotional plane
emotional reasoning
emotional support animal
emotional support vehicle
emotional tampon
hyperemotional
hypoemotional
metaemotional
neuroemotional
nonemotional
overemotional
pseudoemotional
psychoemotional
socioemotional
superemotional
tired and emotional
underemotional
unemotional
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: емоционален
roman: emocionalen
lang: Catalan
word: emocional
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 感情的
roman: gǎnqíng de
lang: Dutch
word: emotioneel
lang: Finnish
word: tunteellinen
lang: French
word: émotionnel
lang: Galician
word: emocional
lang: German
word: emotional
lang: Hebrew
word: רִגְשִׁי
roman: rigshi
lang: Italian
word: emotivo
lang: Japanese
word: 感情的
roman: kanjōteki
lang: Latvian
word: emcionāls
lang: Maltese
word: emozzjonali
lang: Māori
word: whakaaroharoha
lang: Polish
word: emocjonalny
lang: Polish
word: gorący
lang: Polish
word: wrażliwy
lang: Portuguese
word: emocional
lang: Portuguese
word: emocionado
lang: Portuguese
word: emotivo
lang: Romanian
word: emoțional
lang: Russian
word: эмоциона́льный
roman: emocionálʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: emocional
lang: Swahili
word: simikwa
lang: Swedish
word: känslosam
lang: Swedish
word: känslofylld
lang: Swedish
word: känsloladdad
lang: Tagalog
word: madamdamin
lang: Turkish
word: duygusal