Definition of Sentimental

Sentimental

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

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.

Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

Related Definitions:

Abounding, Addressed, Affectedly, An, And, Artificially, Containing, Didactic, Excess, Expressing, For, Having, In, Inclined, Indulging, Moral, Of, Often, Only, Or, Own, Pleasing, Reflection, Reproachful, Sake, Sense, Sensibilities, Sensibility, Sentiment, Tender, The, Their, To, With

Sentimental Quotations

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
James Taylor

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
Paul Simon

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Krist Novoselic

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.
John Elway

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
Cornelia Funke

I'm not terribly sentimental.
Katherine Heigl

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Richard Foreman

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
Carol Alt

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.
Graham Russell

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Robert Frank

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
Chrissie Hynde

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
Pepper Schwartz

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Sister Parish

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor

More Sentimental Quotations

Sentimental Translations

sentimental in Dutch is sentimenteel
sentimental in French is sentimental
sentimental in Spanish is sentimental

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.