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expressive

adj
/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/UK/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/CA/ɛkˈspɹæsɛv/

Etymology

From Middle French expressif.

  1. derived from expressif

Definitions

  1. Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

    • expressive dancing

  2. Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or…

    Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.

    • These adults performed significantly more poorly than a group of 28 control adults on all measures of articulation and expressive and receptive language.
    • This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker.

  3. Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.

    • A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain…

      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…

      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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Derived

antiexpressive, expressive aphasia, expressive language, expressively, expressiveness, expressivism, expressivist, misexpressive, nonexpressive, superexpressive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expressive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expressive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at expressive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA