Sensational Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕn-sāshə-nəl
Of or relating to sensation or the senses
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sensory
  2. sensitive
  3. sensorial
  4. sensual
  5. sensuous
Melodramatic
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. exaggerated
  2. dramatic
  3. excessive
  4. histrionic
  5. lurid
  6. histrionical
  7. emotional
  8. melodramatic
  9. spectacular
  10. startling
  11. theatric
  12. stimulating
  13. theatrical
Antonyms:
  1. run-of-the-mill
  2. usual
  3. ordinary
  4. unexceptional

Words Related to Sensational

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Sensational Sentence Examples

  • I make the predictions in this book not to be sensational or controversial.

  • Of discoveries superficially sensational there are few or none to record, and the weight of his work is for the most part to be appreciated only by professed physicists.

  • His proposals undoubtedly roused an extraordinary enthusiasm, and though he almost completely failed to win to his cause the classes, he rallied the masses with sensational success.

  • He was at home in Voltaire and Rousseau, but had little or no acquaintance with the French sensational philosophy.

  • True to our verbal blackout, nothing specific was said but the tone of her conversation hinted at sensational news.

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