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Collocations for emotional - adj.

VERBS

be, feel, look, sound
become, get, grow
He got very emotional during the speech.
make sb
Having all her friends around her made her very emotional.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
deeply, highly, intensely
overly

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PREPOSITION

about
Don't be so emotional about everything!

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PHRASES

in an emotional state
He was in a very emotional state.

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Emotional is used with these nouns:
abuse, adjustment, anguish, appeal, atmosphere, attachment, awareness, baggage, blackmail, bond, breakdown, burden, climate, climax, commitment, competence, complexity, conflict, connection, consequence, core, crutch, damage, demand, dependence, deprivation, depth, detachment, devastation, development, difficulty, dimension, disability, disorder, distance, distress, disturbance, drain, drive, energy, engagement, environment, exhaustion, experience, expression, farewell, fulfilment, harm, high, honesty, impact, injury, insecurity, instability, intelligence, intensity, intimacy, investment, involvement, isolation, journey, lift, make-up, manipulation, maturity, meeting, mess, moment, need, neglect, nourishment, nuance, outburst, outlet, overtone, pain, paralysis, plea, problem, pull, punch, reaction, release, repertoire, repression, resilience, response, restraint, return, reunion, satisfaction, scar, scene, security, shock, sincerity, speech, stability, stake, state, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, suffering, support, tear, tension, tie, toll, torment, trauma, tribute, turmoil, upheaval, upset, vulnerability, warmth, weight, well-being, wound, wreck

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