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Demonstrative

Demonstrative Meaning & Definition
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

\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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