How to say "emotional" in Japanese

• 感情的かんじょうてきCommon
  na-adjectiveThe general equivalent: describes reactions or behavior driven by feeling rather than reason, as in becoming emotional during an argument. Can also suggest a person prone to such reactions.
  彼かれらは我々われわれよりも感情的かんじょうてきだ。↗

  They are more emotional than we.
• 多感たかんCommon
  na-adjective, nounCovers 'emotional' as in impressionable and keenly sensitive to feelings, typically of a person at a young, emotionally charged stage of life, such as adolescence.
• 精神的せいしんてきCommon
  na-adjectiveChiefly 'mental' or 'psychological': it concerns the mind and feelings as opposed to the body, fitting 'emotional' in talk of emotional stress, strain, or stability rather than a person acting emotional.
  彼かれの病気びょうきは主おもに精神的せいしんてきな物ものだった。↗

  His illness was mainly psychological.
• 感傷的かんしょうてきCommon
  na-adjectiveMatches the sentimental, maudlin side of 'emotional': feelings stirred to excess, as when someone gets sentimental over old memories or a song, often with a hint of mawkishness.

Use 感情的 for reacting with emotion rather than reason, 多感 for an impressionable, often young person, 精神的 for the mental or emotional side of stress and stability, and 感傷的 for sentimental, maudlin feeling.

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• 感情的かんじょうてきemotional
• 多感たかんsensitive
• 精神的せいしんてきmental
• 感傷的かんしょうてきsentimental
• エモーショナルemotional
• 主情的しゅじょうてきemotional
• 情緒的じょうちょてきemotional
• 多情たじょうemotional