Meaning

3 senses
  1. Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

    expressive dancing

    a gesture expressive of the utmost contempt

    ausdrucksvoll, ausdrucksstark

    вырази́тельныйvyrazítelʹnyj

  2. Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.

  3. Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.

    A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.

More definitions
  • characterized by expression
  • performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion

Examples

18 sentences
  1. She has an extremely expressive singing voice.

  2. Tom has an extremely expressive singing voice.

  3. The gift is expressive of my feelings.

    deDas Geschenk ist Ausdruck meiner Gefühle. — Tamy

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  4. The word is expressive of my feelings.

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  5. Sometimes gestures are more expressive than speech.

    ruИногда жесты выразительнее слов. — sharptoothed

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
effectively conveying feeling:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
effectively conveying feeling:

Origin

From Middle French expressif.

From Middle French expressif.

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