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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
demonstrative \demon"strative\, n. gram.
a demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are
demonstratives.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
demonstrative \demon"strative\, a. f. d'emonstratif, l.
demonstrativus.
1. having the nature of demonstration; tending to
demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or
conclusively. "demonstrative figures." --dryden.
1913 webster
an argument necessary and demonstrative. --hooker.
1913 webster
2. expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or
sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
1913 webster
3. consisting of eulogy or of invective. "demonstrative
eloquence." --blair.
1913 webster
demonstrative pronoun gram., a pronoun distinctly
designating that to which it refers.
1913 webster
see also:
demonstrative pronoun
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
demonstrative
adj 1: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an
affectionate and demonstrative family" ant: undemonstrative
2: serving to demonstrate syn: illustrative
n : a pronoun that points out an intended referent syn: demonstrative
pronoun
see also:
undemonstrative illustrative demonstrative pronoun
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
162 moby thesaurus words for "demonstrative":
christophanic, satanophanic, accessible, adoring, affectional,
affectionate, affective, allegorizing, angelophanic, annotative,
apodictic, appearing, approachable, candid, clarifying,
communicative, conjugal, connotative, conversable, critical,
demonstrating, demonstrational, demythologizing, denominative,
denotative, designative, devoted, diagnostic, disclosive,
displaying, editorial, effusive, elucidative, emblematic,
emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive,
enlightening, epiphanic, euhemeristic, evident, evidential,
evincive, exegetic, exemplificative, exhibitive, expansive,
explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositional,
expositive, expository, expressive, extroverted, faithful, feeling,
figural, figurative, filial, fond, frank, free, free-speaking,
free-spoken, free-tongued, glandular, glossarial, gossipy, gut,
husbandly, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, illuminating,
illuminative, illustrative, implicative, incarnating,
incarnational, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual,
languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, manifestative,
materializing, maternal, meaningful, melting, metaphorical, naming,
newsy, of soul, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken,
overdemonstrative, parental, paternal, pathognomonic, peculiar,
plain, pneumatophanic, presentational, probative, profuse,
promulgatory, provable, rationalistic, rationalizing,
representative, revelational, revelatory, romantic, scholiastic,
self-revealing, self-revelatory, semantic, semiotic, sentimental,
showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying,
sociable, soft, soulful, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic,
symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, talkative, tender,
theophanic, typical, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed,
unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive,
unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, uxorious, visceral, warm,
wifely
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