Poignant proposal accepted by European male (9)
I believe the answer is:
emotional
'poignant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'proposal accepted by european male' is the wordplay.
'proposal' becomes 'motion' (motion is a kind of proposal).
'accepted by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'male' becomes 'Al' (shortened version of Alex or Alistair).
'e'+'al'='eal'
'motion' put within 'eal' is 'EMOTIONAL'.
(Other definitions for emotional that I've seen before include "Moved" , "Passionate" , "Subject to intense feelings" , "tear-jerking" , "Moving" .)