sentimental
adjective
sen·ti·men·tal
ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl 
1
a
: marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
b
: resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought
a sentimental attachment
a sentimental favorite
2
: having an excess of sentiment or sensibility
sentimentally
adverb
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Examples of sentimental in a Sentence
He has a sentimental attachment to his old high school.
She saved her wedding gown for sentimental reasons.
He has sentimental ideas about the past.
I tend to get very sentimental when I think about my childhood.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Memories are attached to sentimental objects as the moon and Mercury harmonize!
—USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025
Weeks after Ryan O'Neil's home was destroyed in the LA fires, his son, Patrick O'Neil, is reminiscing about the sentimental memories made at the beachfront home in Malibu.
—Fox News, 1 Feb. 2025
But that hasn’t stopped many people from trying out chatbots for sentimental communications.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Sentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentimental. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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sentimental
adjective
sen·ti·men·tal
ˌsent-ə-ˈment-ᵊl
1
a
: marked by feeling or sentiment
b
: resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought
2
: having an excess of sentiment or sensibility
sentimentally
adverb
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