as in sentimentalist
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionalist
Noun
-
Her understanding and appreciation of the genre is a dream come true for romantics who know that Mr. Darcy isn’t the ultimate prize when an independent woman seeks happiness and companionship.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 May 2025 -
Director Simón Mesa Soto shares in that fervor, mining his main character for pathos, not ridicule, framing Oscar as a true-blue romantic — a kind of holy fool susceptible to even the most obvious of scams but only because this staunch aesthete has devoted all of his attention to verse.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
Noun
-
And the film ends, not with glory for its title idealist, but with chaos, and the president of the Senate smiling smugly to himself.—
Bob Mondello,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
-
The demographics have shifted from young idealists to seasoned veterans grappling with institutional weight and responsibility.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
-
The chants outside the Islamic Republic embassy, the clatter of Persian tea glasses at gatherings of dissidents in our cramped government housing, the news of bombings and assassinations that stole friends and fellow dreamers.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
-
The gap between dreamers and achievers lives in daily discipline.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
-
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
-
If these universities are truly the factories of leftist brainwashing that conservatives claim, shouldn’t these men have emerged as progressive ideologues themselves?—
James Unnever,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2025
Noun
-
The reports of his contemporaries conjure a wild cross between Don Quixote and Don Draper.—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
-
Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.—
Teddy Wayne
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Emotionalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalist. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share