Word Meanings - EXPRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning

Additional info about word: EXPRESSIVE

1. 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. Tickell. 2. 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. Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPRESSIVE)

• Concise
• Condensed
• terse
• pregnant
• expressive
• pointed
• neat
• compendious
• succinct
• summary
• brief
• short
• Important
• Significant
• relevant
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• influential
• weighty
• momentous
• material
• grave
• essential
• Pithy
• Terse
• laconic
• nervous
• Expressive
• suggestive
• indicative
• forcible
• symbolical
• telling
• speaking
• Neat
• smooth
• pithy
• energetic
• compact
• concise

Related words: (words related to EXPRESSIVE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• TERSE
  1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants."
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.