sensational
exciting, dramatic, or meant to stir feeling
Root
- sent / sens: feel, sense, perceive, or think
Other words with the sent / sens root
- dissent: to disagree or hold a different opinion
- insensible: unable to feel, notice, or respond
- sensation: a feeling or perception
- sense: feeling or perception
- sentiment: feeling or opinion
- sentimental: too strongly shaped by tender feeling
Sensational begins with sensation: it makes feeling loud enough to seize attention.
The headline was sensational but the evidence was thin.