About The Word Expressive
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Expressive
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What's The Definition Of Expressive?
[adj] characterized by expression; "an expressive glance"; "a very expressive face"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Expressive: communicative | communicatory Related Terms | Find terms related to Expressive: alive | allegorical | allusive | angelophanic | appearing | associational | Christophanic | connotational | connotative | definable | delineative | demonstrating | demonstrative | denominative | denotational | denotative | depictive | descriptive | designative | diagnostic | disclosive | displaying | eloquent | emblematic | emotional | epiphanic | evidential | evincive | exhibitive | explicit | expositional | expositive | expository | extended | extensional | facund | faithful | figural | figurative | forceful | full of meaning | full of point | full of substance | graphic | identifying | ideographic | idiosyncratic | imaginative | implicative | incarnating | incarnational | indicating | indicative | indicatory | individual | intelligible | intensional | interpretable | lifelike | lively | loaded | manifestative | materializing | meaning | meaningful | meaty | metaphorical | moving | naming | naturalistic | pathognomonic | peculiar | pictorial | pithy | pneumatophanic | poignant | pointed | pregnant | presentational | promulgatory | provocative | readable | realistic | referential | representative | responsive | revealing | revelational | revelatory | rich | Satanophanic | semantic | semiotic | sententious | showing | signalizing | significant | significative | signifying | spirited | striking | substantial | suggestive | symbolic | symbolistic | symbological | symptomatic | symptomatologic | telling | theophanic | thought-provoking | transferred | true to life | typical | vivid | well-drawn See Also | Expressive In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*press"ive\, a. [Cf. F. expressif.]
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative;
communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of
his gratitude.
Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.
--Tickell.
2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or
feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as,
expressive looks or words.
You have restrained yourself within the list of too
cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. --Shak.
Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly
spoke. --Littelton.
-- {Ex*press"ive*ly},adv. -- {Ex*press"ive*ness},n.
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