EGAVE

expressive

About 5.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
    expressive dancing
  2. adjective Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
  3. adjective Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
    A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.
  4. noun Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
  5. noun A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

Similar words

communicatory revelatory communicative indicative of indicative significant vocal articulate eloquent demonstrative

Often followed by

of and language power eyes than behavior face in

Word family

expressively expressiveness expressivenesses

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