From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Artssentimentalsen‧ti‧ment‧al /ˌsentəˈmentl◂/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる adjective1EMOTIONALsomeone who is sentimental is easily affected by emotions such as love, sympathy, sadness etc, often in a way that seems silly to other peopleShe said a sentimental goodbye.sentimental aboutPeople can be very sentimental about animals.2EMOTIONALbased on or relating to your feelings rather than on practicalreasonsHe wasn’t the sort of person who kept things for sentimental reasons.a sentimental journey to the place of his birthThe rings that were stolen were of great sentimental value (=important because of your feelings or memories relating to them).3AEMOTIONALa story, film, book etc that is sentimental deals with emotions such as love and sadness, sometimes in a way that seems silly and insincerea sentimental story set in Russia —sentimentally adverbExamples from the Corpussentimental• Bill's loyalty to his apprentice had been illrewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental.• I quite enjoyed the movie but I thought the ending was a little sentimental.• A little goes a long way; too much is unbearably sentimental.• Anti-whalers are denounced as sentimental.• Ramos admitted he was sentimental about his old school and was sad to see it torn down.• My father became increasingly sentimental as he got older and his friends died off.• I suppose we get more sentimental as we grow older.• From the living room came the sound of a deepmalevoicesinging a sentimentalballad.• Vladimir shook my hand and said a sentimentalfarewell.• This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimentalmodernaberration, but it is how I read the figure.• Employing only a coolcuriosity, she had defended herself from sentimentalpretences.• Westerberg writes unabashedly sentimental, romanticlyrics.• He is hardly a sentimentalsap who is prone to vicarious patriotism.• It is the opinion of a sentimentaltourist that no price would be too great to pay, the novelistdeclared.• Who wanted to get sentimental while eating?for sentimental reasons• I saw ffeatherstonehaugh's as a young man's club, and kept up my subscription purely for sentimental reasons.• I went back later and took out all the picturesfor sentimental reasons.• Richard did not accumulateobjectsfor sentimental reasons.• I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I don't need them for practical purposes.