| 单词 | emotive |
| 释义 | emotive (once / 37168 pages) adj Something described as emotive shows feeling. If you consider women more emotive than men, you think that women are more comfortable sharing their feelings than men. While the word emotive is similar to the word emotional, it's important to note that the two aren't interchangeable. Emotive is used with regard to something that makes you have intense feelings rather than just having intense feelings. For example, an emotive conversation will result in getting people's emotions riled up, while an emotional conversation is one in which people go into it with a lot of intense feelings already. WORD FAMILYemote: emoted, emotes, emoting, emotion, emotive+/emotion: emotional, emotionless, emotions/emotional: emotionalism, emotionality, emotionally, overemotional, unemotional/emotionalism: emotionalisms/emotionality: unemotionality/emotionless: emotionlessly, emotionlessness/unemotional: unemotionally USAGE EXAMPLESBut when her emotive post triggered an outpouring of empathy and anger online, it also prompted the school to hastily issue a public statement. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) Still, Ms. Cox impresses with her variously energetic or emotive renditions of the Houston songs. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) His confirmation hearings in the Senate will be a bitter and emotive struggle. The Guardian(Dec 13, 2016) adj characterized by emotion Syn affectional, affective emotional of more than usual emotion |
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