overemotional

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Recent Examples of overemotional Yes, that was Mother in a nutshell, or a caul: an overemotional territory with no boundaries whatsoever. Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 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
Adjective
  • After hubris comes nemesis, and after the frenzied excesses of the woke revolution came Donald Trump.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 May 2025
  • Executive produced by Ye, the surprise Christmas Day release of the frenzied Whole Lotta Red in 2020 cemented him as a top-tier artist.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Things get even more heated when the characters burst into a series of sweltering original songs at the Juke, creating an orgiastic — even religious — fever strong enough to rip the space-time continuum apart at the seams.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Danish composer’s lyrics suggest a singularity between nature and the human body, painted in such orgiastic imagery as to make In Utero seem modest.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Calm restored in the Treasury market, yields settling back slightly to quiet the overexcited talk about fiscal fissures.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2025
  • After a brain injury, NMDA receptors can become overexcited, causing further cell death, so quieting these receptors might prevent additional damage.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Benicio del Toro, alternately glowering and glib, stars as Anatole (Zsa-zsa) Korda, an Onassis-like figure of uninhibited ruthlessness.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
  • Some are more blunt: Stop worrying about these jobs and embrace the future of uninhibited creation.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • But buyers still see an overheated market — the median home price jumped 69 percent from April 2020 to April 2022 — and an uncertain future.
    Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • For more aggressive investors, Venture offers a growth-at-a-reasonable-price strategy that seeks to capture long-term capital appreciation without chasing overheated momentum stocks.
    Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • And yet that scene, as well as the long mourning period Mahnaz goes through afterwards, is followed by several more melodramatic twists in a scenario that requires a certain level of disbelief.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • That Kamen’s script would attempt to marry these concepts with some grand-gesture stuff, real tear-jerking choices that also tend to read as quite cheesy, doesn’t surprise — after all, what’s more melodramatic than life itself?
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • The most reliably entertaining are the dryly sardonic Yelena Belova (Pugh) and the excitable, histrionic Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (a showily outsized Harbour).
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Real Women takes a more tender, less histrionic approach.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Aside from honoring the tenured in the game, the culture remains enthusiastic about who is next.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Trump is used to an enthusiastic crowd, but this was different: These men and women went against their union to support this deal.
    Salena Zito, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025

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“Overemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overemotional. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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