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Antonyms for sentimental
ˌsɛn təˈmɛn tlsen·ti·men·tal

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  1. sentimental

    Antonyms:
    undidactic, unsentimental, matter-of-fact, unpoetical, prosaic

    Synonyms:
    didactic, moral, instructive, romantic

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  1. sentimentaladjective

    given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality

    Antonyms:
    unemotional, tough

    Synonyms:
    slushy, hokey, schmaltzy, drippy, soppy, mushy, soupy, bathetic, schmalzy, maudlin, kitschy, mawkish

  2. bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushyadjective

    effusively or insincerely emotional

    "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

    Antonyms:
    tough, unemotional

    Synonyms:
    drippy, schmaltzy, sodden, soppy, maudlin, hokey, mushy, stilted, soupy, artificial, mawkish, kitschy, slushy, contrived, drizzly, bathetic, schmalzy

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  1. sentimentaladjective

    Antonyms:
    unsentimental, matter-of-fact, pragmatical

    Synonyms:
    romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical

How to use sentimental in a sentence?

  1. Chris Noth:

    He was on a tight rope in terms of not being over-sentimental or morbid, he was really happy with how it came together and how the show looked and how it has reinvented itself.

  2. Ry Cooder:

    The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

  3. David Prinstein:

    The people buried here escaped fascism during the war. Theyre the founders of the community who bought these lands to make it a cemetery, it has historical and sentimental value.

  4. Maggie Rogers:

    Don't tell me to take my [ explicit ] top off in the middle of my sentimental speech.

  5. Mike Huckabee:

    Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

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#81963prosaic
#143480unemotional
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