OVEREMOTIONAL Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

overemotional

adjective

Definition of overemotional

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

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Adjective

As a vocalist, Rose has never sounded zanier or more frenzied.

— Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
There are years of desire, wilting in silence, or the frenzied rhythm of regret.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 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

Behind closed doors, however, the switch from a spouse to a child, from Mann the husband to Mann the father, is the switch from the intimate to the casual, from uninhibited speech to guardedness.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2026
And Ibiza provides an appropriately uninhibited first setting.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of uninhibited

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An active fan is better than an overheated laptop, but the Raider 16 Max HX B2W's excellent speakers don't do much good when the sound gets drowned out.

— Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of overheated

Adjective

But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
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

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

But footage obtained by OutKick portrayed a different story, including a handshake with an enthusiastic Bengals head coach Zac Taylor.

— Ryan Morik , Preston Mizell OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Wall Street has been enthusiastic about the separation, which is designed to unlock the value of each group of assets and is likely to generate M&A interest.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026

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