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Demonstrative

Demonstrative Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Demonstrative? [n] a pronoun that points out an intended referent [adj] given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family" [adj] serving to demonstrate Synonyms \| Synonyms for Demonstrative: demonstrative pronoun \| effusive \| emotional \| gushing(a) \| gushy \| illustrative \| informative \| instructive Related Terms \| Find terms related to Demonstrative: accessible \| adoring \| affectional \| affectionate \| affective \| allegorizing \| angelophanic \| annotative \| apodictic \| appearing \| approachable \| candid \| Christophanic \| clarifying \| communicative \| conjugal \| connotative \| conversable \| critical \| demonstrating \| demonstrational \| demythologizing \| denominative \| denotative \| designative \| devoted \| diagnostic \| disclosive \| displaying \| editorial \| effusive \| elucidative \| emblematic \| emotiometabolic \| emotiomotor \| emotional \| emotiovascular \| emotive \| enlightening \| epiphanic \| euhemeristic \| evident \| evidential \| evincive \| exegetic \| exemplificative \| exhibitive \| expansive \| explaining \| explanatory \| explicative \| explicatory \| expositional \| expositive \| expository \| expressive \| extroverted \| faithful \| feeling \| figural \| figurative \| filial \| fond \| frank \| free \| free-speaking \| free-spoken \| free-tongued \| glandular \| glossarial \| gossipy \| gut \| husbandly \| identifying \| ideographic \| idiosyncratic \| illuminating \| illuminative \| illustrative \| implicative \| incarnating \| incarnational \| indicating \| indicative \| indicatory \| individual \| languishing \| lovelorn \| lovesick \| lovesome \| loving \| manifestative \| materializing \| maternal \| meaningful \| melting \| metaphorical \| naming \| newsy \| of soul \| open \| outgoing \| outpouring \| outspoken \| overdemonstrative \| parental \| paternal \| pathognomonic \| peculiar \| plain \| pneumatophanic \| presentational \| probative \| profuse \| promulgatory \| provable \| rationalistic \| rationalizing \| representative \| revelational \| revelatory \| romantic \| Satanophanic \| scholiastic \| self-revealing \| self-revelatory \| semantic \| semiotic \| sentimental \| showing \| signalizing \| significant \| significative \| signifying \| sociable \| soft \| soulful \| suggestive \| symbolic \| symbolistic \| symbological \| symptomatic \| symptomatologic \| talkative \| tender \| theophanic \| typical \| unconstrained \| unhampered \| unrepressed \| unreserved \| unrestrained \| unrestricted \| unreticent \| unsecretive \| unshrinking \| unsilent \| unsuppressed \| uxorious \| visceral \| warm \| wifely See Also \| pronoun \| unreserved Demonstrative In Webster's Dictionary \Demon"strative\, a. [F. d['e]monstratif, L. demonstrativus.] 1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. ``Demonstrative figures.'' --Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. --Hooker. 2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative. 3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. ``Demonstrative eloquence.'' --Blair. {Demonstrative pronoun} (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers. \Demon"strative\, n. (Gram.) A demonstrative pronoun; as, ``this'' and ``that'' are demonstratives.

Demonstrative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Demonstrative?

[n] a pronoun that points out an intended referent
[adj] given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family"
[adj] serving to demonstrate

See Also | pronoun | unreserved

Demonstrative In Webster's Dictionary

\De*mon"stra*tive\, a. [F. d['e]monstratif, L.
demonstrativus.]
1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to
   demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or
   conclusively. ``Demonstrative figures.'' --Dryden.

         An argument necessary and demonstrative. --Hooker.

2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or
   sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.

3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. ``Demonstrative
   eloquence.'' --Blair.

{Demonstrative pronoun} (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly
   designating that to which it refers.


\De*mon"stra*tive\, n. (Gram.)
A demonstrative pronoun; as, ``this'' and ``that'' are
demonstratives.

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