Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.

  2. 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.

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

Origin

From Middle French expressif.

From Middle French expressif.

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