overemotional

adjective

Definition of overemotionalnext
as in frenzied

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Recent Examples of overemotional West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals. — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overemotional
  1. frenzied
  2. orgiastic
  3. overexcited
  4. uninhibited
  5. overheated
  6. melodramatic
  7. histrionic
  8. enthusiastic
Adjective
  • That sales pitch has only grown more frenzied as the economics of AI have gotten more precarious.
    — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The Brewers held the Padres to three hits and got timely hits of their own while playing exceptional defense and gradually draining the spirit from the normally frenzied Petco crowd.
    — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of frenzied
Adjective
  • Horniness has been baked into Martens’s vision since the beginning, from the orgiastic inflatable at his SS23 show to the 200,000 boxes of Durex condoms for FW23.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The series’ new iterations, starting with Fede Álvarez’s 2013 soft reboot Evil Dead, have largely abandoned its roots as horror-comedy in favor of orgiastic slaughter.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
Definition of orgiastic
Adjective
  • The atmosphere aboard felt like Christmas Eve with a ship full of overexcited children.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • At their reunion, an overexcited Andy is met by a typically cool Miranda, who characteristically doesn’t even remember her.
    — Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of overexcited
Adjective
  • Freedom and bricolage, magpie eclecticism and uninhibited fun appeared to be the order of the day.
    — Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • And Ibiza provides an appropriately uninhibited first setting.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of uninhibited
Adjective
  • In the midst of the festivities, among a crowd of bookish faculty and graduate students, Annie and Wendy convinced an overheated newspaper photographer who’d been sent to cover the event to abandon his turtleneck.
    — Robert P. Baird, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Adam had been sweating in the overheated house for days, stressing his heart.
    — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of overheated
Adjective
  • Neither maudlin nor melodramatic, and without any glorification, the song is infected by the same chilling gloom which has glommed onto the best of Messrs Linkous, Berman, and Drake.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
  • While the country’s Bollywood machine continues apace, favoring melodramatic stories, this JioHotstar program has challenged its audience – and wider society, by extension – to really think about the nature of life in the country.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of melodramatic
Adjective
  • Moore is genuinely hilarious in the role, transforming under the tutelage of Paul Giamatti’s world-weary director character Jerry from a timid mouse into an indomitable and histrionic artist.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The same moral tact might apply, in less histrionic matters, to the ordinary deceptions and silences by which social life is made bearable.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of histrionic
Adjective
  • Support from the faculty was enthusiastic, and Louise worked closely with professors in many departments to ensure the museum’s exhibitions complemented their classes.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • In that raucous public square known as Reddit, anti-Trumpers are planning protests, evidence that Trump should not expect an overwhelmingly enthusiastic welcome in the traditionally red Sunflower State.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of enthusiastic

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“Overemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overemotional. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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