Antonyms of adj unemotional

2 senses of unemotional

Sense 1
unemotional (vs. emotional) -- (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

emotional (vs. unemotional) -- (of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional")
        => affectional, affective, emotive -- (characterized by emotion)
        => bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy -- (effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry")
        => cathartic, releasing -- (emotionally purging (of e.g. art))
        => charged, supercharged -- (fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech")
        => funky, low-down -- ((of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues)
        => het up (predicate) -- (worked up emotionally by anger or excitement; "was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle"; "got really het up over the new taxes"; "he was suddenly het up about racing cars")
        => hot-blooded -- (prone to emotion; "hot-blooded Latin-Americans")
        => little -- (small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation")
        => lyric, lyrical -- (expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance")
        => mind-blowing -- (intensely affecting the mind or emotions; "spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience"; "a mind-blowing horror story")
        => moody, temperamental -- (subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer")
        => overemotional, sloppy -- (excessively or abnormally emotional)
        => soulful -- (full of or expressing deep emotion; "soulful eyes"; "soulful music")
        => warm-toned -- (used of music)

Sense 2
restrained, reticent, unemotional -- (cool and formal in manner)

INDIRECT (VIA undemonstrative) -> demonstrative -- (given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family")

Similarity of adj unemotional

2 senses of unemotional

Sense 1
unemotional (vs. emotional) -- (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)
       => chilly -- (not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham)
       => dry -- (lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique")
       => impassive, stolid -- (having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference")
       => philosophical, philosophic -- (characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life")
       => phlegmatic, phlegmatical -- (showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man")
       => stoic, stoical -- (seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer")
       => unblinking -- (showing no visible emotion; "stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year")
          Also See-> cool#4; passionless#1; unmoved#1, unaffected#3, untouched#4; unmoving#2

Sense 2
restrained, reticent, unemotional -- (cool and formal in manner)
       => undemonstrative (vs. demonstrative) -- (not given to open expression of emotion)

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