感傷的|かんしょうてきkanshouteki

1. na-adjectivesentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish

• SynonymセンチメンタルCasualColloquial loanword for being sentimental: easily moved to tears and prone to melancholy. More casual than 「感傷的」, and a natural swap in everyday speech.
• Synonym感情的かんじょうてきNeutralNeutral. Emotional in the sense of losing rationality and venting feelings — impulsive rather than melancholy, so it does not replace 「感傷的」 for moods.
• Synonym多情多感たじょうたかんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Describes a temperament rich in feeling, reacting sensitively to things — a disposition, not a passing mood.
• Related涙ぐましいなみだぐましいWrittenWritten/formal prose. Describes something, especially earnest effort, as so touching it brings tears — poignant, not one's own melancholy mood.
• RelatedウェットCasualColloquial loanword. Soft-hearted, quick to be moved — someone who values feeling over logic. Broader than tearful sentimentality.
• Related感動的かんどうてきNeutralNeutral. Moving or stirring — something that strikes people's hearts, usually with a positive sense of being touched, rather than the wistful melancholy of 「感傷的」.
• Related浪花節的なにわぶしてきCasualColloquial. Evokes the old-fashioned naniwa-bushi ethos of duty and compassion — tearful, traditional sentimentality rather than private melancholy.
• Related心情的しんじょうてきWrittenWritten/formal prose. Means grounded in feeling rather than reason — emotional as opposed to rational. About the basis of a judgment, not tearfulness.
• RelatedリリカルCasualColloquial loanword meaning lyrical: verse or music gracefully expressing personal feeling. The stress is on poetic quality, not on a tendency to wallow in sadness.
• Antonym冷静れいせいNeutralNeutral antonym. Calm and composed, unmoved by emotion — the direct opposite of the sentimental 「感傷的」.
• Antonym理性的りせいてきWrittenWritten/formal prose antonym. Judging and acting by reason rather than feeling; set against the emotion-led 「感傷的」.
• Antonym無感動むかんどうWrittenWritten/formal prose antonym. Unmoved and feeling nothing — the opposite of being easily touched or sentimental.

Default to 「感傷的」 for slipping into sadness and wallowing in melancholy, as in 「感傷的な気分」. In casual speech say 「センチメンタル」. For agitation — emotion overriding reason — use 「感情的」; the opposite is 「冷静」. Other shades: 「感動的」 is mostly positively moving, 「涙ぐましい」 praises touching effort, 「ウェット」 soft-hearted, 「リリカル」 poetic.

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1. 精神的せいしんてきな影響えいきょうを受うけやすい様子ようす。