expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia

a sentimental song.

pertaining to or dependent on sentiment

We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.

weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender

the sentimental Victorians.

characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.

adjective

hard-hearted , indifferent , pragmatic , unemotional , unromantic , unsentimental , matter-of-fact , pragmatical

adjective

affected , affectionate , corny * , demonstrative , dewy-eyed , dreamy , effusive , gushing , gushy , idealistic , impressionable , inane , insipid , jejune , languishing , lovey-dovey , loving , maudlin , moonstruck , mushy * , nostalgic , overacted , overemotional , passionate , pathetic , rosewater , saccharine * , sappy * , schmaltzy , silly , simpering , sloppy * , slushy , soapy , soft , softhearted * , sugary * , sweet , syrupy , tearful , tear-jerking , tender , touching , vapid , visionary , weepy , bathetic , mawkish , romantic , sobby , soppy , corny , dramatic , emotional , impressible , lackadaisical , melodramatic , mushy , poignant , sappy