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adjective

Expressive adj.

Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. "Each verse so swells expressive of her woes."

Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. "You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them." "Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke."

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Etymology of 'Expressive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expressive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the future," says Mr. Edward Denison, "which is conferred on him by reason, has attached to it the duty of providing for that future; and our language bears witness to this truth by using, as expressive of active precaution against future want, a word which in its radical meaning implies only a passive foreknowledge of the same. Whenever we speak of the virtue of providence, we assume that forewarned is fore-armed, To know the future ...

— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... mildly inquired the cause of the argument. He was a young man of twenty-three or four, with a countenance more ingenuous than handsome, expressive of that mobility which is inseparable from a ...

— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath

... in a slight Polish accent by the count, a very handsome and fashionably dressed brunette, with expressive brown eyes, a thin little white nose, and delicate little moustaches over a tiny mouth. 'This gentleman has not been playing forfeits ...

— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... soul will reach final beatification rather than permanent and irremediable degradation. And yet the ultimate absorption of all souls into the Divine is assumed as a matter of course by him. This process, and that of Christianity, are expressive of the characteristics of the two faiths and of the two peoples. The slow and patient East, and the faith which it has begotten, spins out its theory of time and of human existence almost ad infinitum. Multitudinous ...

— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

... child's sense of persons becomes, at one period of its development, quite the controlling element. His action in the presence of the persons of the household becomes hesitating and watchful. Especially does he watch the face, for any expressive indications of what treatment is to be expected; for facial expression is now the most regular as well as the most delicate indication. Special observations on H.'s responses to changes in facial expression up to the age of twenty ...

— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin

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