full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
serving to express; indicative of power to express: a look expressive of gratitude.
of, relating to, or concerned with expression: Dance is a highly expressive art.
Sociology. (of a crowd or group) engaging in nonpurposeful activity of an expressive and often rhythmic nature, as weeping, dancing, or shouting.Compare active (def. 15), orgiastic (def. 3).
Linguistics. of or relating to forms in which sounds denote a semantic field directly and nonarbitrarily, through sound symbolism based, to some degree, on synesthesia, as observable in onomatopoeia, rhyming and gradational compounds, and emotionally charged words such as hypocoristics and pejoratives.
Origin of expressive
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French; see express, -ive
synonym study for expressive
1, 2. Expressive,meaningful,significant,suggestive imply the conveying of a thought, indicating an attitude of mind, or the like, by words or otherwise. Expressive suggests conveying, or being capable of conveying, a thought, intention, emotion, etc., in an effective or vivid manner: an expressive gesture.Meaningful and significant imply an underlying and unexpressed thought whose existence is plainly shown although its precise nature is left to conjecture. Meaningful implies a secret and intimate understanding between the persons involved: Meaningful looks passed between them.Significant suggests conveying important or hidden meaning: On hearing this statement, he gave the officers a significant glance.Suggestive implies an indirect or covert conveying of a meaning, sometimes mentally stimulating, sometimes verging on impropriety or indecency: a suggestive story or remark. See also eloquent.
What I found interesting in these narratives was that these commenters were not only ready to come out on a “public” digital space, they were also expressive in revealing their offline identities.
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To their surprise, the winner looked least like Kim physically but had the most expressive performance.
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Fountain pens can be challenging for a beginner, but that finicky ink delivery ensures a more expressive hand.
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She sought refuge from her children in the bedroom and we talked for two hours, de Rham’s expressive and energetic hand gestures articulating the evolution of the cosmos and occasionally colliding with the webcam.
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The instrumental view of culture has it wrong, she argues, and should be replaced with what she calls an “expressive view.”
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Robin Williams, as I knew him, was warm, gentle, expressive, nurturing, and brilliant.
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With me, finding out how expressive people could be in music really saved me.
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Bitcoin serves a purpose that is at once expressive and purposeful.