emotional

[ɪˈmoʊʃənl]

Definition:
1. Determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason.
2. Connected with people's feelings.
3. Causing people to feel strong emotions.

Use 'emotional' in a sentence:

• 1. The child's mother made an emotional appeal on TV for his return.
• 2. How much emotional baggage is he bringing with him into the relationship?
• 3. She offered him emotional and practical support in countless ways.
• 4. W. Somerset Maugham's novel still packs an emotional punch.
• 5. He's an emotional cripple.
• 6. Other daughters, faced with their mother's emotional hunger, pull away.
• 7. I don't get as emotional as I once did.
• 8. In analysis the individual resolves difficult emotional conflicts.
• 9. He was able to sever all emotional bonds to his family.
• 10. I don't think you've ever heard Doris talking about her emotional life before.
• 11. He tends to get emotional on these occasions.
• 12. They made an emotional appeal for help.
• 13. My emotional turmoil had drained me.
• 14. Being back with their family should provide emotional stability for the children.
• 15. I needed this man's love, and the emotional support he was giving me.
• 16. They often seem depressed and close to emotional breakdown.
• 17. Emotional conflict may shake the foundations of even the strongest relationship.
• 18. I need your full, emotional identification with the problem and with me.
• 19. She doesn't want to make a big emotional commitment to Steve at the moment.
• 20. He was really screwed up with his emotional problems.
• 21. I am not an emotional type and so cannot bring myself to tell him I love him.
• 22. Mothers are often the ones who provide emotional support for the family.
• 23. It had been the cause of much emotional upset.
• 24. His work emphasised the emotional as well as the physical well-being of children.
• 25. Many people have a natural and emotional aversion to insects.
• 26. Some students have emotional problems that teachers feel ill equipped to handle.
• 27. Poor educational performance is related to emotional disturbance.
• 28. Emotional stress can elevate blood pressure.
• 29. Often there are emotional reasons paralleling the financial ones.
• 30. He is a very emotional man.
• 31. She went through a period of emotional adjustment after her marriage broke up.
• 32. She is assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
• 33. I've been on an emotional roller coaster since I've been here.
• 34. The conductor brought home the full thrust of the work's emotional resolution.
• 35. I am not very given to emotional displays.
• 36. She is always assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
• 37. She'd seen his moods range across the emotional spectrum.
• 38. You are currently in a muddle where financial and emotional concerns are tangled together.
• 39. I've been on an emotional roller-coaster since I've been here.
• 40. Damages may be awarded for emotional injury.
• 41. The debate was highly emotional at times.
• 42. Many men become more aware of emotional numbness in their 40s.
• 43. The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
• 44. She was carrying a lot of emotional baggage.
• 45. Victims are left with emotional problems that can last for life.
• 46. Emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause.
• 47. She made an emotional public appeal on her son's behalf.
• 48. The emotional wounds of early childhood leave ineradicable scars.
• 49. Abuse can lead to both psychological and emotional problems.