emotive

Meaning of emotive

adjective
  1. arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.
    animal experimentation is an emotive subject
    the issue has proved highly emotive

mid 18th century: from Latin emot- ‘moved’, from the verb emovere (see emotion).

Information about emotive

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of emotive

emo-tive

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • emotive is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

emotive synonyms

Meaning affectional:

affectional, affective

Meaning (especially of speech or writing) arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings:

inflammatory

Meaning giving rise or likely to give rise to controversy or public disagreement:

controversial

Meaning causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial:

contentious

Meaning relating to a person's emotions:

emotional

Meaning quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences:

sensitive

Meaning requiring sensitive or careful handling:

delicate

Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:

difficult

Meaning constituting or presenting a problem:

problematic

Meaning easily upset or offended; oversensitive:

touchy

Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:

awkward

Translation of emotive

Words that rhyme with emotive

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