Emotional and Sad

Emotional

Emotional adjective - Having or expressing great depth of feeling.

Sad and emotional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sad" instead an adjective "Emotional".

Sad

Sad adjective - Feeling unhappiness.

Emotional and sad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emotional" instead an adjective "Sad".

Nearby Words: sadness, sadly

Both words in one sentence

  • In the first few seasons, when something sad or emotional happened, the jingle would play.
  • Videogame / Metal Gear Solid To a lesser extent, credits song "The Best Is Yet to Come" (or variants thereof) tends to play in the original game during emotional or sad moments.
  • Lyrical Dissonance: The kings of it in Melodeath; While most of their songs are fairly hard hitting and seem sort of sad or emotional, all of their lyrics from The Redshift and after are actually quite positive and uplifting.
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