expressive

Meaning of expressive

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

adjective

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

Information about expressive

Hyphenation of expressive

ex-pres-sive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • expressive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

expressive antonyms

Meaning :

inexpressive, unexpressive

Translation of expressive

Words that rhyme with expressive

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