Another word for expressive
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Adjective
Effectively conveying meaning, feeling, or mood
- Having or expressing a meaning:
- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
- Having meaning, function, or purpose:
- Showing or conveying meaning, especially without words:
- The denotation, referent, or idea associated with a word or phrase:
- Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
- An interpreted goal, intent, or end:
- Capable of or characterized by eloquence:
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Another word for expressive
Modifier
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- Having force and producing a striking effect.
- Revealing previously unknown information.
- Arresting the attention and producing a vivid impression on the sight or the mind.
- Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant:
- Having intensely bright colors:
- Having a very high degree of saturation:
- Full of color; abounding in colors:
- Characterized by rich variety; vividly distinctive:
- Having or showing the knowledge or skill of a master.
- With the skill of a master.
- Somewhat hotter than temperate; having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat; moderately hot:
- Having the natural heat of living beings:
- Preserving or imparting heat:
- Of or relating to art or artists:
- Sensitive to or appreciative of art or beauty:
- Showing imagination and skill:
- Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions:
- Wrathful by temperament; choleric.
- Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.
- Of or relating to emotion:
- Readily affected with or stirred by emotion:
- Arousing or intended to arouse the emotions:
- Easily crushed or bruised; fragile:
- Easily chewed or cut:
- Young and vulnerable:
- Full of energy or alertness; vigorous or animated:
- Characterized by much activity or excitement:
- Quick-paced:
- Possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.
- Of or relating to energy.
- Having or capable of exerting power.
- Effective or potent:
- Great:
- Characterized by or full of force; effective:
- Physically powerful; capable of exerting great physical force.
- Marked by great physical power:
- In good or sound health; robust:
- Expressed or performed with emphasis:
- Forceful and definite in expression or action.
- Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way.
- Full of or characterized by animation, vigor, or courage:
- Having a specified mood or nature. Used in combination:
- Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
- Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
- Changing or capable of changing position:
- Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another:
- Causing or producing motion.
- Arousing deep emotion, especially pity or sorrow; touching:
- Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings:
- Physically painful:
- Tending or having the power to evoke.
- Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- Weighty or significant; full of meaning:
- Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment:
- Tending to suggest; evocative:
- Stimulating further thought:
- Conveying a hint or suggestion:
- Having meaning, function, or purpose:
- Showing or conveying meaning, especially without words:
- Having or expressing a meaning:
- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
- Eliciting or capable of eliciting sympathy or tenderness.
- Concerning; about.
- Composed of distinct, meaningful syllables or words:
- Expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language:
- Characterized by the use of clear, expressive language:
- Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy:
- Favorably inclined:
- Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial:
- Exciting strong feelings, as of inspiration; rousing.
- Active; lively.
- A slight motion or moving about:
- Of or relating to drama or the theater.
- Characterized by or expressive of the action or emotion associated with drama or the theater:
- Arresting or forceful in appearance or effect:
- Involving or characterized by description; serving to describe.
- Concerned with classification or description:
- Expressing an attribute of the modified noun, as green in green grass. Used of an adjective or adjectival clause.
- One that serves as an example or type for others of the same classification.
- One that serves as a delegate or agent for another.
- A member of a governmental body, usually legislative, chosen by popular vote.
- Serving to indicate:
- Of, relating to, or being the mood of the verb used in ordinary objective statements.
- The indicative mood.
- Providing knowledge, as about a person's life, that was previously unknown or considered intimate:
- Exposing more body skin to view than usual:
- Serving to manifest or prove.
- Involving or characterized by demonstration.
- Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion:
- Capable of or characterized by eloquence:
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