overemotionally
With excessive sentiment
In an overemotional manner—with excessive or disproportionate feeling.
Someone who reacts overemotionally lets their emotions run beyond what the situation calls for: She admitted she'd responded overemotionally to the criticism.
The word often carries a dismissive tone, suggesting the person should have shown more restraint.
Without defense or shield
- insecurelyWithout firmness or stability
- anxiouslyIn a worried manner
- neuroticallyWith excessive nervous worry
- self-consciouslyWith uncomfortable awareness
tearfully · weepily · mopily · wistfully · melancholically · oversensitively · moodily · broodingly
In a stagey manner
- melodramaticallyWith exaggerated emotional display
- histrionicallyWith excessive dramatic flair
- exaggeratedlyTo an inflated degree
- effusivelyWith unrestrained enthusiasm
gushingly · flamboyantly · ostentatiously · showily · campily · hammily · stagily · bombastically
With intense emotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- vehementlyWith intense force
- ardentlyWith intense feeling
- zealouslyWith extreme devotion
fiercely · feverishly · frantically · desperately · obsessively · manically · hysterically · deliriously
Without prior deliberation
- hotheadedlyIn rash anger
- explosivelyWith violent sudden force
- irritablyIn an annoyed manner
- testilyIn irritated manner
touchily · petulantly · temperamentally · erratically · rashly · hastily · snappily · irascibly
vulnerably
Without defense or shield
- insecurelyWithout firmness or stability
- anxiouslyIn a worried manner
- neuroticallyWith excessive nervous worry
self-consciously · tearfully · weepily · mopily · wistfully · melancholically · oversensitively · moodily · broodingly · tremulously
theatrically
In a stagey manner
- melodramaticallyWith exaggerated emotional display
- histrionicallyWith excessive dramatic flair
- exaggeratedlyTo an inflated degree
effusively · gushingly · flamboyantly · ostentatiously · showily · campily · hammily · stagily · bombastically · grandiosely
passionately
With intense emotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- vehementlyWith intense force
- ardentlyWith intense feeling
zealously · fiercely · feverishly · frantically · desperately · obsessively · manically · hysterically · deliriously · rapturously
impulsively
Without prior deliberation
- hotheadedlyIn rash anger
- explosivelyWith violent sudden force
- irritablyIn an annoyed manner
testily · touchily · petulantly · temperamentally · erratically · rashly · hastily · snappily · irascibly · peevishly
overemotionallystoically
With unemotional endurance
unemotionally · impassively · dispassionately · coldly · coolly
overemotionallyrationally
In a logical manner
logically · level-headedly · analytically · pragmatically · objectively