As the popping sound of the fireworks stopped, it suddenly became quiet around me. The smell of gunpowder somehow put me in a sentimental mood.
Source: tatoeba (327429)
Sentimental
//ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩//
Synonyms for "sentimental" (138 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (69)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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6 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- емоционален adj (derived from emotion rather than strictly logical reason)
- разнежен adj (romantic)
- сантиментален adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Catalan
1 entries- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 多愁善感 adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- 感傷 /感伤 adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- 煽情 adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Dutch
1 entries- emotioneel adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Esperanto
1 entries- sentimentala adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Finnish
4 entries- romanttinen adj (romantic)
- sentimentaalinen adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- tunne adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- tunne adj (derived from emotion rather than strictly logical reason)
French
1 entries- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Galician
1 entries- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
German
2 entries- rührselig adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Greek
3 entries- συναισθηματικός adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- συναισθηματικός adj (derived from emotion rather than strictly logical reason)
- συναισθηματικός adj (romantic)
Hungarian
3 entries- szentimentális adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- szentimentális adj (romantic)
- érzelgős adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Italian
1 entries- sentimentale adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Japanese
2 entries- センチメンタル adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- 感傷的 adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Latvian
1 entries- salds adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Macedonian
4 entries- емоциона́лен adj (derived from emotion rather than strictly logical reason)
- ра́знежен adj (romantic)
- сентимента́лен adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- чувстви́телен adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Persian
1 entries- سانتیمانتال adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Polish
1 entries- sentymentalny adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Portuguese
3 entries- romântico adj (romantic)
- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sentimental adj (romantic)
Romanian
3 entries- romantic adj (romantic)
- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sentimental adj (romantic)
Russian
1 entries- сентимента́льный adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Spanish
4 entries- cursi adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sensiblero adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sentimental adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- sentimentaloide adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Swedish
4 entries- känslig adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- känslosam adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- känslosam adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- lättrörd adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Turkish
3 entries- duygusal adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
- romantik adj (romantic)
- santimantal adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đa cảm adj (characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
He has completely avoided being sentimental.
Source: tatoeba (688057)
Tom couldn't help but feel sentimental.
Source: tatoeba (1095097)
Don't get sentimental.
Source: tatoeba (2245342)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.