sentimental | (adj) ซึ่งรู้สึกมากกว่าปกติ, See also: ซึ่งรู้สึกเกินควร, ซึ่งสะเทือนอารมณ์, ซึ่งซาบซึ้ง, Syn. emotional, idealistic, susceptible | sentimentalist | (n) คนมีอารมณ์อ่อนไหว, Syn. romanticist | sentimentality | (n) ความมีอารมณ์อ่อนไหว | sentimentalize | (vi) มีอารมณ์อ่อนไหว, See also: มีความรู้สึกมากกว่าปกติ | sentimentalize | (vt) ทำให้มีอารมณ์อ่อนไหว, See also: ทำให้รู้สึกมากกว่าปกติ | sentimentalization | (n) การมีอารมณ์อ่อนไหว, See also: การมีความรู้สึกมากกว่าปกติ |
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| sentimental | (เซนทะเมน'เทิล) n. รู้สึกมากกว่าปกติ, รู้สึกเกินควร, มีอารมณ์อ่อน ไหว, ซาบซึ้ง, สะเทือนอารมณ์ได้ง่าย, เห็นอกเห็นใจ, Syn. warm, sympathetic, loving |
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| | | sentimental | (adj) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality | sentimentalise | (v) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression, Syn. sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize | sentimentalism | (n) the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form | sentimentalism | (n) a predilection for sentimentality | sentimentalist | (n) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality, Syn. romanticist | sentimentality | (n) extravagant or affected feeling or emotion | sentimentalization | (n) the act of indulging in sentiment, Syn. sentimentalisation, romanticisation, romanticization | sentimentalize | (v) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment, Syn. sentimentalise | sentimentalize | (v) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities, Syn. sentimentalise | sentimentally | (adv) in a sentimental manner, Ant. unsentimentally |
| Sentimental | a. [ Cf. F. sentimental. ] 1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense. [ 1913 Webster ] A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Romantic. -- Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. “Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously.” V. Knox. “I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be.” Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentalism | n. [ Cf. F. sentimentalisme. ] The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentalist | n. [ Cf. F. sentimentaliste. ] One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentality | n. [ CF. F. sentimentalité. ] The quality or state of being sentimental. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentalize | v. t. To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentalize | v. i. To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ] | Sentimentally | adv. In a sentimental manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | | | ซาบซึ้ง | [sāpseung] (adj) EN: heartfelt ; sentimental | ตื่นตันใจ | [teūntanjai] (adj) FR: émouvant ; sentimental |
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