emotive
See also: émotive
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emotive (comparative more emotive, superlative most emotive)
- Of or relating to emotion.
- Appealing to the emotions.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity.
- (grammar) Expressing an emotion.
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of, or relating to emotion
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appealing to one's emotions
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emotive (plural emotives)
- (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion.
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emotive
- inflection of emotiv:
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emotive f pl
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emotive f