Definition of emotive in English:

emotive

adjective ɪˈməʊtɪvəˈmoʊdɪv

1Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.
animal experimentation is an emotive subject
the issue has proved highly emotive
Example sentencesExamples
- The question I keep asking myself is why has fox hunting become such an intensely emotive issue in this country?
- It is a problematic and emotive issue as it relates to the most vulnerable and marginalised group in any society: children.
- Money of course is a highly emotive subject, and often people allow their emotions to cloud their better judgement.
- When a subject becomes as emotive as this one, then people will believe what they want to believe.
- Film is an emotive medium, uniquely able to manipulate through lighting and music as well as words.
- All I am saying to you is that all the rather emotive matters you are talking about can be dealt with in these other grounds.
- Certain subjects are taboo, or too emotive to be examined with objectivity.
- The debate ranged over many emotive ethical issues and in doing so lost sight of what was of benefit to the area as required by the statute.
- The presence of women in the armed services is an emotive subject.
- Slavery is an emotive subject but has to be addressed head on.
- I think I would be too emotional; I couldn't make an objective decision on such an emotive subject.
- These issues involve difficult and emotive ethical problems.
- This emotive subject was close to the hearts of many councils and generated a lot of comment.
- It is easy to see why the issue is a particularly emotive one.
- The media's exploitation of emotive issues to boost circulation and to win rating battles is par for the course.
- Urgent, thorough debate is needed on this very emotive subject, but the right people must be involved in that debate.
- I believe the emotive issues will prove most important in the long run.
- I knew how emotive and personal a subject it was and, therefore, my goal has been to question not to judge.
- It is also, I fancy, a far too emotive subject for me to handle in great depth.
- The Great Famine affected all aspects of Irish life and remains one of the most emotive issues in modern Irish historiography.
Synonyms
inflammatory, controversial, contentious, emotional
sensitive, delicate, difficult, problematic, touchy, awkward
1. 1.1 Expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally descriptive.
  the comparisons are emotive rather than analytic
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once I have assurances from both authorities I will look at the town as a whole and take a holistic view of the problem, rather than an emotive one.
  When it was suggested that his policy was a system of insurance, he at first accepted the term, but quickly backed away to a less emotive description.
  Note how the arguments for a monarchy are couched in emotive rather than rational terms.
  Is it not too late to have a rather more sceptical and much less emotive debate about global poverty?
  The result is also meaningless as an emotive response to a complex problem.
  I was equally disappointed to read the rather silly and emotive language used by the two councillors quoted.
  I applaud the council for considering the facts rather than being swayed by emotive and at times inaccurate information.
  I guess my cynical nature is rearing its head here, because it looks to me like your position is emotive rather than reasoned.
  However, the minister called for a less emotive and better informed debate on incineration and waste management.
  The refusal to acknowledge emotive arguments is annoying and very much in the vein of English Language Positivism.
  Though her subject matter is emotional, her voice remains neither emotive nor nostalgic.
  Susan has a whimsical, descriptive and deeply emotive writing style.
  Journalists answer that terrorism is an emotive term that compromises their objectivity.
  In fact, words are often chosen as much for their emotive as their cognitive force.
  At the end of the day, it is entirely up to you whether you buy or rent your home, and this is often an emotive rather than rational decision.
  Sorry if I am a bit emotive but I found the article really offensive.
  We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both.
  Tabloid newspapers also favour emotive words over objective descriptions of events.

Usage

The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not simply interchangeable. Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling’, while emotional tends to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling’. Thus an emotive issue is one which is likely to arouse people's passions, while an emotional response is one which is itself full of passion. In sentences such as we took our emotive farewells the word emotive has been used in a context where emotional would be more appropriate

Derivatives

emotively

adverb

Unfortunately, discussion of these issues is often clouded by misunderstanding and prejudice and terms like federal are used emotively and with conflicting meanings.
Example sentencesExamples
- I think that any visual statement has to communicate at multiple levels intellectually and emotively and there is no country with a monopoly in that area.
- He sings emotively and plays with great élan, and his lyrics this time out are particularly thoughtful.
- Any opposing opinion is emotively classified as some form of hate.
- I believe most individuals will vote emotively on the basis of ‘we must keep ‘our’ pound.’

emotiveness

noun ɪˈməʊtɪvnəsəˈmoʊdɪvnəs

But there is another side to discourse, a side that may often hide under the torrent of words and rhetoric, appearing only in the emotiveness of the vocabulary we use.
Example sentencesExamples
- To my mind this rational, intellectual debate hasn't happened yet due primarily to the emotiveness of the issue.
- The emotiveness of the press is not contradicted by the dispassionate statistics of the criminal returns.
- Given the complexity and the emotiveness of this issue, why didn't they manage to spend three seconds addressing such a crucial point.

emotivity

noun ˌiːməʊˈtɪvɪti

According to him, the ‘infinite emotivity’ of the collages could only be captured intuitively.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin emot- 'moved', from the verb emovere (see emotion).

Rhymes

motive, votive

Definition of emotive in US English:

emotive

adjectiveəˈmōdivəˈmoʊdɪv

1Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.
animal experimentation is an emotive subject
the issue has proved highly emotive
Example sentencesExamples
- Slavery is an emotive subject but has to be addressed head on.
- When a subject becomes as emotive as this one, then people will believe what they want to believe.
- These issues involve difficult and emotive ethical problems.
- It is a problematic and emotive issue as it relates to the most vulnerable and marginalised group in any society: children.
- Film is an emotive medium, uniquely able to manipulate through lighting and music as well as words.
- The Great Famine affected all aspects of Irish life and remains one of the most emotive issues in modern Irish historiography.
- This emotive subject was close to the hearts of many councils and generated a lot of comment.
- Money of course is a highly emotive subject, and often people allow their emotions to cloud their better judgement.
- The presence of women in the armed services is an emotive subject.
- It is easy to see why the issue is a particularly emotive one.
- The media's exploitation of emotive issues to boost circulation and to win rating battles is par for the course.
- Urgent, thorough debate is needed on this very emotive subject, but the right people must be involved in that debate.
- I think I would be too emotional; I couldn't make an objective decision on such an emotive subject.
- I believe the emotive issues will prove most important in the long run.
- The question I keep asking myself is why has fox hunting become such an intensely emotive issue in this country?
- It is also, I fancy, a far too emotive subject for me to handle in great depth.
- The debate ranged over many emotive ethical issues and in doing so lost sight of what was of benefit to the area as required by the statute.
- I knew how emotive and personal a subject it was and, therefore, my goal has been to question not to judge.
- Certain subjects are taboo, or too emotive to be examined with objectivity.
- All I am saying to you is that all the rather emotive matters you are talking about can be dealt with in these other grounds.
Synonyms
inflammatory, controversial, contentious, emotional
1. 1.1 Expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally or objectively descriptive.
  the comparisons are emotive rather than analytic
  Example sentencesExamples
  When it was suggested that his policy was a system of insurance, he at first accepted the term, but quickly backed away to a less emotive description.
  Is it not too late to have a rather more sceptical and much less emotive debate about global poverty?
  The refusal to acknowledge emotive arguments is annoying and very much in the vein of English Language Positivism.
  Tabloid newspapers also favour emotive words over objective descriptions of events.
  Journalists answer that terrorism is an emotive term that compromises their objectivity.
  Though her subject matter is emotional, her voice remains neither emotive nor nostalgic.
  In fact, words are often chosen as much for their emotive as their cognitive force.
  Note how the arguments for a monarchy are couched in emotive rather than rational terms.
  I guess my cynical nature is rearing its head here, because it looks to me like your position is emotive rather than reasoned.
  Sorry if I am a bit emotive but I found the article really offensive.
  However, the minister called for a less emotive and better informed debate on incineration and waste management.
  At the end of the day, it is entirely up to you whether you buy or rent your home, and this is often an emotive rather than rational decision.
  Once I have assurances from both authorities I will look at the town as a whole and take a holistic view of the problem, rather than an emotive one.
  We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both.
  Susan has a whimsical, descriptive and deeply emotive writing style.
  I was equally disappointed to read the rather silly and emotive language used by the two councillors quoted.
  The result is also meaningless as an emotive response to a complex problem.
  I applaud the council for considering the facts rather than being swayed by emotive and at times inaccurate information.

Usage

The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not interchangeable. Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling,’ while emotional tends to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling.’ Thus an emotive issue is one likely to arouse people's passions, while an emotional response is one that is itself full of passion. In sentences such as we took our emotive farewells, emotive has been used where emotional is appropriate

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin emot- ‘moved’, from the verb emovere (see emotion).

单词	emotive
释义	Definition of emotive in English: emotive adjective ɪˈməʊtɪvəˈmoʊdɪv 1Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling. animal experimentation is an emotive subject the issue has proved highly emotive Example sentencesExamples The question I keep asking myself is why has fox hunting become such an intensely emotive issue in this country? It is a problematic and emotive issue as it relates to the most vulnerable and marginalised group in any society: children. Money of course is a highly emotive subject, and often people allow their emotions to cloud their better judgement. When a subject becomes as emotive as this one, then people will believe what they want to believe. Film is an emotive medium, uniquely able to manipulate through lighting and music as well as words. All I am saying to you is that all the rather emotive matters you are talking about can be dealt with in these other grounds. Certain subjects are taboo, or too emotive to be examined with objectivity. The debate ranged over many emotive ethical issues and in doing so lost sight of what was of benefit to the area as required by the statute. The presence of women in the armed services is an emotive subject. Slavery is an emotive subject but has to be addressed head on. I think I would be too emotional; I couldn't make an objective decision on such an emotive subject. These issues involve difficult and emotive ethical problems. This emotive subject was close to the hearts of many councils and generated a lot of comment. It is easy to see why the issue is a particularly emotive one. The media's exploitation of emotive issues to boost circulation and to win rating battles is par for the course. Urgent, thorough debate is needed on this very emotive subject, but the right people must be involved in that debate. I believe the emotive issues will prove most important in the long run. I knew how emotive and personal a subject it was and, therefore, my goal has been to question not to judge. It is also, I fancy, a far too emotive subject for me to handle in great depth. The Great Famine affected all aspects of Irish life and remains one of the most emotive issues in modern Irish historiography. Synonyms inflammatory, controversial, contentious, emotional sensitive, delicate, difficult, problematic, touchy, awkward 1.1 Expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally descriptive. the comparisons are emotive rather than analytic Example sentencesExamples Once I have assurances from both authorities I will look at the town as a whole and take a holistic view of the problem, rather than an emotive one. When it was suggested that his policy was a system of insurance, he at first accepted the term, but quickly backed away to a less emotive description. Note how the arguments for a monarchy are couched in emotive rather than rational terms. Is it not too late to have a rather more sceptical and much less emotive debate about global poverty? The result is also meaningless as an emotive response to a complex problem. I was equally disappointed to read the rather silly and emotive language used by the two councillors quoted. I applaud the council for considering the facts rather than being swayed by emotive and at times inaccurate information. I guess my cynical nature is rearing its head here, because it looks to me like your position is emotive rather than reasoned. However, the minister called for a less emotive and better informed debate on incineration and waste management. The refusal to acknowledge emotive arguments is annoying and very much in the vein of English Language Positivism. Though her subject matter is emotional, her voice remains neither emotive nor nostalgic. Susan has a whimsical, descriptive and deeply emotive writing style. Journalists answer that terrorism is an emotive term that compromises their objectivity. In fact, words are often chosen as much for their emotive as their cognitive force. At the end of the day, it is entirely up to you whether you buy or rent your home, and this is often an emotive rather than rational decision. Sorry if I am a bit emotive but I found the article really offensive. We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both. Tabloid newspapers also favour emotive words over objective descriptions of events. Usage The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not simply interchangeable. Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling’, while emotional tends to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling’. Thus an emotive issue is one which is likely to arouse people's passions, while an emotional response is one which is itself full of passion. In sentences such as we took our emotive farewells the word emotive has been used in a context where emotional would be more appropriate Derivatives emotively adverb Unfortunately, discussion of these issues is often clouded by misunderstanding and prejudice and terms like federal are used emotively and with conflicting meanings. Example sentencesExamples I think that any visual statement has to communicate at multiple levels intellectually and emotively and there is no country with a monopoly in that area. He sings emotively and plays with great élan, and his lyrics this time out are particularly thoughtful. Any opposing opinion is emotively classified as some form of hate. I believe most individuals will vote emotively on the basis of ‘we must keep ‘our’ pound.’ emotiveness noun ɪˈməʊtɪvnəsəˈmoʊdɪvnəs But there is another side to discourse, a side that may often hide under the torrent of words and rhetoric, appearing only in the emotiveness of the vocabulary we use. Example sentencesExamples To my mind this rational, intellectual debate hasn't happened yet due primarily to the emotiveness of the issue. The emotiveness of the press is not contradicted by the dispassionate statistics of the criminal returns. Given the complexity and the emotiveness of this issue, why didn't they manage to spend three seconds addressing such a crucial point. emotivity noun ˌiːməʊˈtɪvɪti According to him, the ‘infinite emotivity’ of the collages could only be captured intuitively. Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin emot- 'moved', from the verb emovere (see emotion). Rhymes motive, votive Definition of emotive in US English: emotive adjectiveəˈmōdivəˈmoʊdɪv 1Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling. animal experimentation is an emotive subject the issue has proved highly emotive Example sentencesExamples Slavery is an emotive subject but has to be addressed head on. When a subject becomes as emotive as this one, then people will believe what they want to believe. These issues involve difficult and emotive ethical problems. It is a problematic and emotive issue as it relates to the most vulnerable and marginalised group in any society: children. Film is an emotive medium, uniquely able to manipulate through lighting and music as well as words. The Great Famine affected all aspects of Irish life and remains one of the most emotive issues in modern Irish historiography. This emotive subject was close to the hearts of many councils and generated a lot of comment. Money of course is a highly emotive subject, and often people allow their emotions to cloud their better judgement. The presence of women in the armed services is an emotive subject. It is easy to see why the issue is a particularly emotive one. The media's exploitation of emotive issues to boost circulation and to win rating battles is par for the course. Urgent, thorough debate is needed on this very emotive subject, but the right people must be involved in that debate. I think I would be too emotional; I couldn't make an objective decision on such an emotive subject. I believe the emotive issues will prove most important in the long run. The question I keep asking myself is why has fox hunting become such an intensely emotive issue in this country? It is also, I fancy, a far too emotive subject for me to handle in great depth. The debate ranged over many emotive ethical issues and in doing so lost sight of what was of benefit to the area as required by the statute. I knew how emotive and personal a subject it was and, therefore, my goal has been to question not to judge. Certain subjects are taboo, or too emotive to be examined with objectivity. All I am saying to you is that all the rather emotive matters you are talking about can be dealt with in these other grounds. Synonyms inflammatory, controversial, contentious, emotional 1.1 Expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally or objectively descriptive. the comparisons are emotive rather than analytic Example sentencesExamples When it was suggested that his policy was a system of insurance, he at first accepted the term, but quickly backed away to a less emotive description. Is it not too late to have a rather more sceptical and much less emotive debate about global poverty? The refusal to acknowledge emotive arguments is annoying and very much in the vein of English Language Positivism. Tabloid newspapers also favour emotive words over objective descriptions of events. Journalists answer that terrorism is an emotive term that compromises their objectivity. Though her subject matter is emotional, her voice remains neither emotive nor nostalgic. In fact, words are often chosen as much for their emotive as their cognitive force. Note how the arguments for a monarchy are couched in emotive rather than rational terms. I guess my cynical nature is rearing its head here, because it looks to me like your position is emotive rather than reasoned. Sorry if I am a bit emotive but I found the article really offensive. However, the minister called for a less emotive and better informed debate on incineration and waste management. At the end of the day, it is entirely up to you whether you buy or rent your home, and this is often an emotive rather than rational decision. Once I have assurances from both authorities I will look at the town as a whole and take a holistic view of the problem, rather than an emotive one. We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both. Susan has a whimsical, descriptive and deeply emotive writing style. I was equally disappointed to read the rather silly and emotive language used by the two councillors quoted. The result is also meaningless as an emotive response to a complex problem. I applaud the council for considering the facts rather than being swayed by emotive and at times inaccurate information. Usage The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not interchangeable. Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling,’ while emotional tends to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling.’ Thus an emotive issue is one likely to arouse people's passions, while an emotional response is one that is itself full of passion. In sentences such as we took our emotive farewells, emotive has been used where emotional is appropriate Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin emot- ‘moved’, from the verb emovere (see emotion).
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