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an emotional appeal
an emphatic appeal
a passionate appeal
an impassioned appeal
a heartfelt appeal
an moving appeal
emotional distress
mental distress
psychological distress
nervous distress
personal distress
severe distress
an emotional impact
a sentimental impact
an emotive impact
a heartbreaking impact
a psychological impact
an upsetting impact
an emotional attachment
a personal attachment
a psychological attachment
a sentimental attachment
a deep attachment
an emotive attachment

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Recent Examples of emotional Unfortunately, that resulted in the emotional/medical breakdown resulting in the incident with his mother. Sharareh Drury, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025 Advertisement Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, mental, and emotional impacts of the pandemic persist in many ways. Simon Williams, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025 Amy Robach became emotional on a podcast when speaking about the recent layoffs at ABC. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 And that’s certainly the case with Ryan, for whom the craft of conducting is a holistic endeavor, requiring intellectual engagement, physical endurance, and emotional balance. Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emotional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotional
Adjective
  • Clara’s Table restaurant is Dearborn Inn’s tribute to Henry Ford’s wife, Clara, a passionate horticulturist and gracious hostess.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Beyond football, Sanders is equally passionate about advancing women’s sports.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Economic growth − uneven and fragile In raw numbers, Cambodia’s economic progress over the past two decades has been impressive.
    Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • To win a fight with so much emotion behind it, and to have submitted a fighter as skilled on the ground as Mitchell is one of the more impressive wins of 2025.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Their demeanor may change in unexpected ways, such as becoming more alert to potential dangers, barking more, or maybe even being more affectionate.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Read: OpenAI goes MAGA The dissonance is part of the broader experience of tech—a field that, for the consumer, can feel less affectionate than addling.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And if Django’s Billy Crash tapped into Goggins’s ability to thrive with brutal spite, Mannix plays more to Goggins’s excitable energy and capacity for being clever (even when his character seems to be anything but).
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
  • For someone so obsessed with the granular details of carbohydrates and fueling, Roche runs with an easy, excitable freedom.
    Devin Kelly, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Though the scene is peaceful and loving, there is a lot of rebellion baked in.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • See treasures The combination of gruesome deaths followed by careful and loving burials also suggests their group was victorious in the conflict, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • However, evidence increasingly suggests that early in its life, Mars was a warm and wet planet much like our own.
    Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Deals on seating Deals on outdoor rugs Deals on pools and hot tubs Deals on fire pits Deals on storage Deals lights and umbrella Deals on seating Seating areas can create a focal point in your garden decor and are a great place to relax in warmer weather.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In my view, this is one of the more exciting uses of a foldable display in PCs because people like the portability of 13-inch laptops, but not necessarily the actual size of the display.
    Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • After competing to see who could thread a cushion full of needles the quickest (which still managed to be more exciting than Squid Game: The Challenge's anticlimactic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors), the final three took their places behind their boxes for one final game.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The book is confident, thorough, uninhibited, and often weird.
    Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Dutchman is uninhibited, forceful in its criticisms and condemnations of Black people who refuse to acknowledge the acute pain of racial violence in America.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Emotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotional. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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