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sentimental | croon |

As a adjective sentimental

is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

As a verb croon is

to hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.

As a noun croon is

a soft or sentimental hum or song.

sentimental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

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    croon

    English

    Verb

  • To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
  • To soothe by singing softly.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  • (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
    • (Jamieson)

    Derived terms

    * crooner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft or sentimental hum or song.
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    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.” }}

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