English-German translations for sentimental

• emotional
• rührselig
  Ich möchte nicht rührselig werden, aber man stelle sich eine Mutter vor, die um ihr Kind trauert, nachdem sie glaubte, ihm das rettende Medikament verabreicht zu haben! I do not wish to be sentimental, but who cannot but think of a mother mourning her child in the belief that she had given him the medicine that would save him.
• sentimental
  Zu diesem Thema braucht es keine rechtliche oder moralische Abhandlung oder sentimentale Fürsprecher. No legal or moral disquisition or sentimental spokespersons are called for on this subject.

Definition of sentimental

• Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
• Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment

Related words

• sentimentality
• sentimentally
• sentimentalist
• sentimentalize
• sentimentalization
• unsentimental
• sentimentalism
• unsentimentally
• antisentimental