Sekirov Dictionary

expressive

/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
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Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
- These adults performed significantly more poorly than a group of 28 control adults on all measures of articulation and expressive and receptive language. — 2008
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Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
- A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.

noun2

Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
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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.
- I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms. — 2017

forms

expressives · more expressive · most expressive

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