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Sentimental
Answer for the clue "Sentimental ", 10 letters:
moonstruck
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Word definitions for moonstruck in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from moon (n.) + struck (see strike (v.)). Compare Greek selenobletos . For sense, see moon (v.). Perhaps coined by Milton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: lunatic ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon. 2 (context by extension English) Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature. 3 (context obsolete English) Made sick, or (like fishes) ...
Usage examples of moonstruck.
The elemental was about fifty yards off the port bow, shaping itself a waterspout, a moonstruck column of blackness, from the placid surface of the sea.
It may be that there have been many moonstruck and misleading ideals that have from time to time perplexed mankind.
I hope to refer to this work hereafter, but just now I will only say that, after reading till one is tired the strange fancies of the squarers of the circle, the inventors of perpetual motion, and the rest of the moonstruck dreamers, most persons will confess to themselves that they have had notions as wild, conceptions as extravagant, theories as baseless, as the least rational of those which are here recorded.
Then, having correctly labeled them as moonstruck, it put its beaky face down and mumbled up a wild strawberry.
And then you risk the life of one of the best rabbits we've got, just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moonstruck field mouse.