emotional

adj.

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, sound

▪ become, get, grow

▪

He got very emotional during the speech.

▪ make sb

▪

Having all her friends around her made her very emotional.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ deeply, highly, intensely

▪ overly

PREPOSITION

▪ about

▪

Don't be so emotional about everything!

PHRASES

▪ in an emotional state

▪

He was in a very emotional state.

Emotional is used with these nouns: ↑abuse, ↑adjustment, ↑anguish, ↑appeal, ↑atmosphere, ↑attachment, ↑awareness, ↑baggage, ↑blackmail, ↑bond, ↑breakdown, ↑burden, ↑climate, ↑climax, ↑commitment, ↑competence, ↑complexity, ↑conflict, ↑connection, ↑consequence, ↑core, ↑crutch, ↑damage, ↑demand, ↑dependence, ↑deprivation, ↑depth, ↑detachment, ↑devastation, ↑development, ↑difficulty, ↑dimension, ↑disability, ↑disorder, ↑distance, ↑distress, ↑disturbance, ↑drain, ↑drive, ↑energy, ↑engagement, ↑environment, ↑exhaustion, ↑experience, ↑expression, ↑farewell, ↑fulfilment, ↑harm, ↑high, ↑honesty, ↑impact, ↑injury, ↑insecurity, ↑instability, ↑intelligence, ↑intensity, ↑intimacy, ↑investment, ↑involvement, ↑isolation, ↑journey, ↑lift, ↑make-up, ↑manipulation, ↑maturity, ↑meeting, ↑mess, ↑moment, ↑need, ↑neglect, ↑nourishment, ↑nuance, ↑outburst, ↑outlet, ↑overtone, ↑pain, ↑paralysis, ↑plea, ↑problem, ↑pull, ↑punch, ↑reaction, ↑release, ↑repertoire, ↑repression, ↑resilience, ↑response, ↑restraint, ↑return, ↑reunion, ↑satisfaction, ↑scar, ↑scene, ↑security, ↑shock, ↑sincerity, ↑speech, ↑stability, ↑stake, ↑state, ↑stimulus, ↑strain, ↑strength, ↑stress, ↑suffering, ↑support, ↑tear, ↑tension, ↑tie, ↑toll, ↑torment, ↑trauma, ↑tribute, ↑turmoil, ↑upheaval, ↑upset, ↑vulnerability, ↑warmth, ↑weight, ↑well-being, ↑wound, ↑wreck