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Exclamatory   Listen
adjective
Exclamatory  adj.  Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Exclamatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... his own name with his image in the looking-glass, and when called by name would turn toward the glass even when at some distance from it. He gave to "Ah!" which he used at first when recognizing any person or his own image in a mirror, an exclamatory sound such as adults employ when ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... gold, and signed photographs of aviators. Ruth's bedroom was also plain and white and dull Japanese gray, a simple room with that simplicity of hand-embroidery, real lace, and fine linen appreciated by exclamatory women friends. ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... ices, and fruit, and then, with coffee, cigarettes, and plenty of sugar-plums, settled down in the deepest shade of the garden, Gyp in a low wicker chair, Daphne Wing on cushions and the grass. Once past the exclamatory stage, she seemed a great talker, laying bare her little soul with perfect liberality. And Gyp—excellent listener—enjoyed it, as one enjoys all confidential revelations of existences very different from one's own, especially when regarded as a ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... exclamatory manner," I replied, "from contempt! You seem to me very ready to think evil. This is not the ...
— Eliza • Barry Pain

... skill and power have few parallels in the annals of parliamentary warfare. Those form a very inadequate conception of its scope and power, whose ideas of the eloquence of Kossuth are derived solely from the impassioned and exclamatory harangues which he flung out during the war. These were addressed to men wrought up to the utmost tension, and can be judged fairly only by men in a state of high excitement. He adapted his matter and manner to the occasion and the ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

... overhearer might have followed, by these occasional exclamatory utterances, the course of a devouring trouble prowling up and down through his thoughts, as one's eye tracks the shark by the occasional cutting of his fin ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

... 4. EXCLAMATORY; a declarative, imperative, or interrogative sentence that expresses violent emotion, such as terror, surprise, or anger; as, You shall take that book! or, Can ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood

... a little hot. "Perhaps you have never discovered that girls say many things to hide their emotions. Perhaps you don't realize what feverish, exclamatory, foolish things girls are. They don't know how to be honest with the men they love, and they wouldn't if they did. You are little short of an idiot, Monty Brewster, if you believed the things she said rather than the ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Exclamatory" :   emphatic, forceful, exclaim



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