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expressive adjective [ ɪkˈsprɛsɪv ]

• effectively conveying thought or feeling.
• "she has big expressive eyes"
Similar: eloquent, meaningful, telling, revealing, demonstrative, suggestive, emotional, full of emotion/feeling, indicating emotion/feeling, passionate, intense, deeply felt, poignant, moving, stirring, striking, evocative, artistic, vivid, graphic, descriptive, ardent, powerful, charged, imaginative, inspired, visionary,
Opposite: expressionless, inexpressive, unemotional,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘tending to press out’): from French expressif, -ive or medieval Latin expressivus, from exprimere ‘press out’ (see express3). Compare with express1.


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