sentimental

adj.感情用事的;adj.多愁善感的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
sentimental (adjective)
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 or sensibility - sentiment
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
sentimental (adjective)
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
SYNONYMS:
chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony ( spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
RELATED WORDS:
dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed; feel-good, fuzzy; melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy; flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery; cutesy, twee []
NEAR ANTONYMS:
unadulterated, unvarnished; antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded
unsentimental
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