Word Finder - expressive

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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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(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.

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Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

Her motions are often more expressive than any words, and she is as graceful as a nymph.

She had the most expressive face he had ever seen.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.

Next came a lesson on words expressive of positive quality.

She was tough but expressive, a combination he found odd but promising.

Lana's eyes opened, and she stared at Brady, emotions flying through the expressive gaze.

His music is in this way singularly expressive; its humour and pathos.

Almond-shaped green eyes were large and expressive while her skin was touched with honey.

It follows from these propositions that the expression of emotion is, for the most part, not under control of the will, and that those striped muscles are the most expressive which are the least voluntary.

The milk-dentition is expressed by a similar formula, d for deciduous, being added before the letter expressive of the nature of the tooth.

He was no more expressive around Mary than anyone else, but he often asked her opinion on things.

From Flanders to Rome his distinction was acknowledged, and artists of less invention, among them some of the foremost on both sides of the Alps, were not ashamed to borrow from his work this or that striking combination or expressive type.

The following characteristic extract from a letter shows Hamilton's own opinion of his mathematical work, and also gives a hint of the devices which he employed to render written language as expressive as actual speech.

When Roland heard of his wife's condemnation, he wandered some miles from his refuge in Rouen; maddened by despair and grief, he wrote a few words expressive of his horror at those massacres which could only be inspired by the enemies of France, protesting that "from the moment when I learned that they had murdered my wife I would no longer remain in a world stained with enemies."

Their hair is dark brown or black, straight, wavy or curly; the beard is thin, the face broad, the profile not prominent, the eyes large and expressive, the nose somewhat flattened, the lips thick, the teeth excellent in shape and of a pearly whiteness.

And we notice that her face grows more expressive each day.

A predicate either is expressive of the essence or part of the essence of the subject, viz.

It may be useful to give here a synopsis of the classification adopted in this encyclopaedia, noting that, for convenience of treatment, it has been thought, necessary to adopt a grouping not always expressive of the most recent views of affinity.

Leonardo, though no special student of the Greeks, has perfectly carried out the Greek principle of expressive variety in particulars subordinated to general symmetry.

The latter was so well designed, so naturally and beautifully coloured, and so strongly expressive of suffering and agony, that it was found necessary to remove it from the place where it had been exhibited in the chapel of a convent.

His lifemate's expressive eyes prevented her from appearing composed; she had looked either frightened or confused during their short interaction.

They have developed a more convenient and expressive written character by stages of which one is best represented by the tablets of Hagia Triada.

By the patient study of the behaviour of precocious young birds, such as chicks, pheasants, ducklings and moorhens, it can be readily ascertained that such modes of activity as running, swimming, diving, preening the down, scratching the ground, pecking at small objects, with the characteristic attitudes expressive of fear and anger, are so far instinctive as to be definite on their first occurrence - they do not require to be learnt.

According to the developed cuneiform system of writing, words may be written by means of a sign (or combination of signs) expressive of the entire word, or they may be spelled out phonetically in syllables.

He passed six quiet years in the convent, but his poems written during that period are expressive of burning indignation against the corruptions of the church and profoundest sorrow for the calamities of his country.

Finlay speaks of him as a capable partisan leader who had great influence over his men, and describes him as of "middle size, thin, dark-complexioned, with a bright expressive animal eye which indicated gipsy blood."

The Macassars are well-built and muscular, and have in general a dark-brown complexion, a broad and expressive face, black and sparkling eyes, a high forehead, a flattish nose, a large mouth and long black soft hair.

She has a wonderfully expressive face which was very funny in the sofa scene.

Everything is seen from their perspective and all their feelings are conveyed in their richly expressive faces.

For the case study we choose a constraint domain C 0 that is sufficiently expressive to encode many policy idioms.

His deeply expressive throaty voice; tender, vulnerable with underlying menace - soul plugged.

The one is expressive of sorrow for our past conduct; the other is expressive of sorrow for our past conduct; the other is expressive of our renouncing it.

Terry, by contrast, has less finesse at the expressive level.

The General spoke very fluently in French, and with many an expressive gesture.

And the easy listening experience is enhanced by a detailed, expressive midrange and tightly controlled low frequencies.

His paintings, largely monochromatic, are executed with the expressive strokes of a palette knife.

Bourne's expressive choreography is well matched by Terry Davies ' wonderfully moody jazz score.

The Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano is reknowned for expressive voice, statuesque stage presence warm, bubbly personality.

Elgar's Serenade was given a delightful performance, with springy rhythms in the first movement and eloquently expressive phrasing in the Larghetto.

Brass contributes greatly to the effect and the highly expressive recitatives that follow set a standard for Mozart and others to follow.

Taking expressive freedom in throwing to an extreme, its conception seems comparatively spontaneous, different to his more complex assemblies.

At last, there's a digital synth that lets you concentrate on and control the expressive nuances of your music in real time.

Demonstrations by the Airhedz Club, and tryouts on a full size trapeze rig, run by Whitstable-based Expressive Feat aerialist team.

Although not true 24-bit, CD sound quality is more natural, expressive and detailed then usual.

Softness of outline, warmth of colouring, a fine and almost voluptuous feeling for beauty of every kind, and a pleading and melancholy tenderness-such were the elements of the spell which he threw round the sympathies of his reader, and which his compatriots expressed by the vague but expressive word blanditia.

The Arabs usually designate Jerusalem by names expressive of holiness, such as Beit el Makdis and El Mukaddis or briefly El Kuds, i.e.

He began by reading, with the most profound admiration and attention, the whole of Faraday's extraordinary self-revelations, and proceeded to translate the ideas of that master into the succinct and expressive notation of the mathematicians.

The generous scorn and pathos of the historian acting on extraordinary gifts of imaginative insight and characterization, and the fierce indignation of the satirist finding its vent in exaggerating realism, doubtless to some extent warped their impressions; nevertheless their works are the last voices expressive of the freedom and manly virtue of the ancient world.

Nothing can be more expressive of humility and ardent love than some of the actions of the ruff.

There are no numeral auxiliaries or segregatives used in counting, as in many languages of eastern Asia, though words expressive of a collective or integral are often used after the tens, sometimes after a smaller number.