Sentimentalize

Definition

sentimental /sentÇ'mentl/ adj ၁။ ေအာက္ေမ့တမ္းတေသာ။ သံေယာဇဥ္တြယ္တာေသာ။ have a sentimental attachment to one's birthplace ❍ do sth for sentimental reasons ❍ a watch with sentimental value (ie one which is precious eg because it was given by sb one loves). ၂။ ( sometimes derog ) (က) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ဆန္ေသာ။ လြမ္းေမာတသ ေသာ။ sentimental music ❍ a sloppy, sentimental love story. (ခ) ~ (about sb/ sth) သံေယာဇဥ္ရိွေသာ။ တြယ္တာ ေသာ။ She's very sentimental about animals. ❏ sentimentalist /-tǝlÇst/ n ( sometimes derog ) စိတ္ႏုသူ။ စိတ္အာ႐ံုခံစားခ်က္ ျပင္းျပသူ။ ❏ sentimentality /sentÇmen'tælǝti/ n [U] ( derog ) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္မႈ လြန္ကဲျခင္း။ the film is moving without degenerating into sentimentality. ❏ sentimentalize , -ise /-tǝlaÇz/ v ( derog ) တျမည့္ျမည့္ တသသ ျဖစ္သည္။ Be careful not to sentimentalize. ❍ He resists the temptation to sentimentalize (over) his ordeal. sentimentally /-tǝli/ adv

Examples

1. I kept the clock purely for sentimental reasons.
2. The stolen items were of great sentimental value to the family (=they were valuable to them for emotional reasons).
3. A sentimental song/book/film
4. I’m just a sentimental old man.