expressive

Meaning

Adj

1. Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
2. Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
3. Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.

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. 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.

Synonyms

significant

eloquent

meaningful

demonstrative

clear

speaking

🗣️

explicit

imaginary

incisive

in relief

literary

lively

mobile

performance

persuasive

pithy

pregnant

talking

telling

telltale

vivid

vocal

facund

silver-tongued

full of meaning

meaning

smooth-talking

aquiline

descriptive

distinct

emotive

emphatic

figurative

Translations

expresivo

expressivo

expressif

espressivo

aussagekräftig

εκφραστικός

significativo

ausdrucksvoll

anlamlı

expressiv

eloquent

expressive

expressiu

espressiva

beredt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/

Etymology

From Middle French expressif.