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sentimental

SENTIMENT'AL, a.

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.




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SENTIMENT'AL, a.

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.


SEN-TI-MENT'AL, a.

  1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as, a sentimental discourse.
  2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.
  3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense. Sheridan.

Sen`ti*men"tal
  1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

    [Obsoles.]

    Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke,
    Where not the character, but poet, spoke,
    He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design,
    Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.
    Whitehead.

  2. 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.

    A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately.

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

    Syn. -- Romantic. -- Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. "Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously." V. Knox. "I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be." Bp. Stillingfleet.

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Sentimental

SENTIMENT'AL, adjective

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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INGRA'TEFUL, a. [L. ingratus; in and gratus.]

1. Ungrateful; unthankful; not having feelings of kindness for a favor received.

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He gives no ingrateful food.

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