different between sentimental vs saccharine

English

Etymology

sentiment +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nti?m?ntl?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal

Adjective

sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental)

1. Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
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2. Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
3. Romantic.

Quotations

• 1885: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado,

  Are you in sentimental mood?

  I'll sigh with you.

• 1944: Doris Day, Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna set my heart at ease.

  Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,

  to renew old memories.

Antonyms

• unsentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentality
• sentimentally

Translations

Anagrams

• entailments

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n.ti.m?n?tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen.ti.men?tal/

Adjective

sentimental (masculine and feminine plural sentimentals)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalisme
• sentimentalitat
• sentimentalment

Related terms

• sentiment

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ti.m??.tal/
• Homophones: sentimentale, sentimentales

Adjective

sentimental (feminine singular sentimentale, masculine plural sentimentaux, feminine plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidade
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente

Related terms

• sentimento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?ntim?n?ta?l/

Adjective

sentimental (comparative sentimentaler, superlative am sentimentalsten)

1. sentimental

Declension

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentimental.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.ti.m?.?ta?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal
• Rhymes: -aw

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais, comparable)

1. sentimental

Romanian

Etymology

From French sentimental

Adjective

sentimental m or n (feminine singular sentimental?, masculine plural sentimentali, feminine and neuter plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Declension

Related terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentalitate

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sentimen?tal/, [s?n?.t?i.m?n??t?al]

Adjective

sentimental (plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidad
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente
• valor sentimental

Related terms

• sentimiento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæk??a?n/, /-??n/, /-?i?n/, /?sæk??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæk???n/, /-??n/, /?sæk??n/
• Homophone: saccharin
• Hyphenation: sac?cha?rine

Etymology 1

From New Latin saccharum (“sugar”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Saccharum is derived from saccharon (“syrupy liquid from bamboo or reeds”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sákkharon), from Pali sakkhar? (“sugar; gravel; granule, grain; crystal; potsherd”), from Sanskrit ?????? (?árkar?, “ground or candied sugar; cotton sugar, sugarmaple; gravel, grit, pebbles; potsherd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?orkeh? (“boulder; gravel”).

Adjective

saccharine (comparative more saccharine, superlative most saccharine)

1. (dated) Of or relating to sugar; sugary.

   Synonym: (archaic, rare) saccharous

2. (dated) Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.

   Synonyms: cloying, sickly, sickly sweet

3. (figuratively, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.

   Synonyms: cloying, precious, saccharined, sickly, twee

   Antonym: nonsaccharine

4. (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.

Derived terms

• nonsaccharine
• saccharined (adjective)
• saccharinely
• saccharinity

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:sweet

Noun

saccharine (uncountable)

1. (dated) Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
2. (figuratively) Sentimentalism.

Translations

Etymology 2

From saccharin +? -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).

Adjective

saccharine (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).

Derived terms

• saccharinic

Translations

Etymology 3

A variant of saccharin.

Noun

saccharine (plural saccharines)

1. Alternative spelling of saccharin

References

French

Alternative forms

• saccarine (1990 reformed spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ka.?in/

Noun

saccharine f (plural saccharines)

1. saccharin

Further reading

• “saccharine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

sacchar?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of sacchar?nus