emotional
Having or showing strong feelings.
Experiencing, expressing, or easily affected by strong feelings such as happiness, sadness, anger, or fear.
About feelings instead of facts or logic.
Connected with a person's feelings rather than with their thoughts or reasoning.
- Base: emotional
emotional support
1comfort for someone's feelings
Kindness, care, or help you give to make someone feel better emotionally.
- After the accident, she needed a lot of emotional support from her friends.
- Pets can provide emotional support to people who live alone.
emotional baggage
1past negative feelings affecting now
Unresolved bad feelings from past experiences that still affect you today.
- He entered the relationship with a lot of emotional baggage from his divorce.
- It's important to deal with your emotional baggage before starting something new.
emotional baggage
2past emotional problems affecting you now
Bad feelings and problems from your past that still hurt you and change how you act today.
- She has a lot of emotional baggage from her childhood.
- Before starting a new relationship, he wanted to deal with his emotional baggage.
- Therapy can help you work through emotional baggage.
emotional roller coaster
1rapidly changing emotions
A situation where your feelings change quickly from happy to sad or excited to worried.
- The week before the wedding was an emotional roller coaster for her.
- The week before the wedding was an emotional roller coaster.
- Watching the game was an emotional roller coaster for the fans.
- Watching that series was an emotional roller coaster for me.
emotional roller coaster
2time of many emotional ups and downs
A situation or time when your feelings change very quickly from happy to sad, relaxed to stressed, and so on.
- The first year after the baby was born was an emotional roller coaster for them.
- Breaking up with him has been an emotional roller coaster—one day I feel free, the next I feel lonely.
- Starting a new business can be an emotional roller coaster.