Adjective: sentimental
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sentimental |
| Superlative | most sentimental |
Sample Sentences
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Are you in sentimental mood?
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I'll sigh with you. [1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:]
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Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
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Gonna set my heart at ease.
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Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
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to renew old memories. [1944, Doris Day, Sentimental Journey:]
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2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
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Wish I was old and a little sentimental
Adjectives inflected like sentimental
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
3. Proto-Italic *sentiō
4. Latin sentiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
6. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
7. Proto-Italic *-mentom
8. Latin -mentum
9. Latin sentimentumder.
10. Old French sentementder.
11. English sentiment
12. English -al
13. English sentimental
14. From sentiment + -al.
Verbs referencing "sentimental"
French Adjectives
sentimental, Finnish Adjectives
sentimentaalinen, Dutch Adjectives
sentimenteel.