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Narrator: Today's word is "Sentimentally" — adverb, pronounced /ˌsentɪˈmentəli/, with the stress on "men".
Narrator: Sentimentally means in a way that shows tender feelings, especially about the past.
Narrator: In plain English, it means with soft feelings.
Narrator: It comes from sentimental plus -ly.
Narrator: A common collocation is "sentimentally attached", which describes loving something for its memories.
Narrator: It differs from "emotionally", because sentimentally suggests tenderness and nostalgia.
Narrator: In a second sense, writing sentimentally can mean too sweetly.
Narrator: Literature, family life and reviews all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: sentimentally means with memories in your heart.
Speaker A: Why won't you sell the old car?
Speaker B: I'm SENTIMENTALLY attached! From sentimental.
Speaker A: Family trips?
Speaker B: Twenty summers of them.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She spoke sentimentally about her school", memories. "He's sentimentally attached to the house", home. "The film ends sentimentally", reviews.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-ally", "sentimentally".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Fondly is its cousin, nostalgically its twin, and tenderly an alternative — yet sentimentally keeps its soft charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "sentimentally" in AI prompts — useful for memoir writing and decluttering apps.
Speaker A: How for memoirs?
Speaker B: Warm voice.
Prompt: Rewrite this paragraph so it speaks sentimentally but honestly about my grandmother’s kitchen.
Speaker A: And decluttering?
Speaker B: Hard choices.
Prompt: Suggest a kind method for deciding what to keep when you are sentimentally attached.
Speaker A: Could it help reviews?
Speaker B: Yes, for critique.
Prompt: Critique a film that ends too sentimentally, in two balanced sentences.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Social posts.
Prompt: Write a post looking back sentimentally on ten years of our small business.
Sentimentally — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary