Synonyms for emotional
ɪˈmoʊ ʃə nlemo·tion·al

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1. emotionaladjective

   determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason

   "it was an emotional judgment"

   Synonyms:
   worked up, aroused, excited

   Antonyms:
   unagitated, unemotional, phlegmatic, intellectual, chilly, philosophical, impassive, unblinking, stoical, philosophic, stoic, cerebral, phlegmatical, stolid, dry

2. emotionaladjective

   of more than usual emotion

   "his behavior was highly emotional"

   Synonyms:
   worked up, aroused, excited

   Antonyms:
   phlegmatical, dry, philosophical, unblinking, stolid, cerebral, philosophic, unemotional, unagitated, impassive, intellectual, stoical, phlegmatic, chilly, stoic

3. emotionaladjective

   of or pertaining to emotion

   "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis"

   Synonyms:
   worked up, aroused, excited

   Antonyms:
   unemotional, unagitated, phlegmatical, stolid, stoical, phlegmatic, chilly, dry, unblinking, philosophical, philosophic, impassive, stoic, cerebral, intellectual

4. aroused, emotional, excited, worked upadjective

   (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

   "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"

   Synonyms:
   aroused, horny, stimulated, delirious, aflame, ruttish, stirred, activated, turned on(p), randy, frantic, unrestrained, mad, worked up, wound up, steamy, stirred up, excited, ablaze

   Antonyms:
   phlegmatic, dry, phlegmatical, chilly, impassive, unagitated, philosophic, unemotional, cerebral, stoical, unblinking, intellectual, stoic, philosophical, stolid

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1. List of paraphrases for "emotional":

   affective, emotive, psychological, sentimental, emotions, mental, unemotional

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1. Mark Nunes:

   We love Mary and are overjoyed that she is alive and back in the US. Our hearts and home are open to her, and we will do everything we can to insure she remains safe and healthy, We remain concerned about her emotional and physical well-being. We look forward to the day our family is finally reunited.

2. Mark Nunes:

   We love Mary and are overjoyed that she is alive and back in the US. Our hearts and home are open to her, and we will do everything we can to insure she remains safe and healthy, we remain concerned about her emotional and physical well-being. We look forward to the day our family is finally reunited.

3. Willie Robertson:

   It’s emotional at times, i was crying watching it because you just think about if something were to happen differently, then none of this would have happened.

4. Brene Brown:

   I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow — that’s vulnerability.

5. Kate Duff:

   I know this sounds crazy, but if you do it, it really works, it really does soothe whatever the angst or emotional feeling that’s brought up by the [trigger] word.