Gesticulation Synonyms

jĕ-stĭkyə-lāshən
A deliberate, vigorous motion or gesture.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gesture
An expressive, meaningful bodily movement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gesture
  2. indication
  3. motion
  4. sign
  5. signal
  6. high sign

Words Related to Gesticulation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Gesticulation Sentence Examples

  • His eloquence was in turn majestic, fierce, playful, insinuating; his gesticulation natural, vivid, large, powerful.

  • He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story.

  • At the same time his love of the marvellous found gratification in the wonders of the Arabian Nights, and it is further characteristically related of him that he used to carry continually in his waistcoat pocket a miniature copy of Ossian, passages from which he frequently recited with "sonorous elocution and vehement gesticulation."