Definition of expressive in English:

expressive

adjective ɪkˈsprɛsɪvɛkˈsprɛsɪvɪkˈsprɛsɪv

1Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
富于表情的；富于表现力的
she has big expressive eyes
Example sentencesExamples
- He thrived on the atmosphere and whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his expressive displays of emotions.
- His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy.
- Her work is particularly vibrant and expressive, and her animals come alive on the canvas.
- As passionate and expressive as she is in her acting roles, as an interviewee she can be extremely difficult.
- Each of the twelve songs on this album are composed of beautifully expressive and intimate lyrics.
- Bertie gave an expressive grunt, which conveyed his opinion that there was no accounting for tastes.
- Emptiness is as full as fullness, and the whiteness of the paper is as expressive as the marks made upon it.
- You can be bold and expressive at this point to get your message across in high places and to important people.
- Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour.
- Some of these highly expressive conversations took place in very public places.
- Iwan is an expressive performer, jumping around the stage, screaming and shouting.
- The prints range in subject from expressive individual figures to more complex detailed narrative scenes.
- Her aim now is to explore a more expressive, fine art interpretation.
- Her face was expressive and her emotions streamed through like light streams through glass.
- He's from the old school, motioning you ahead of him through doorways with a graceful wave of his expressive hands.
- Sometimes the effects are so expressive you can't believe chance did this.
- I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
- Caroline is more than just a pretty face and expressive voice on the stage.
- According to Conrad, there are limits to the expressive capacities of narrative film.
- The Chamber Choir brought the first half to a climax with an expressive performance of Cantique de Jean Racine.
Synonyms
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
1. 1.1expressive of Conveying (a specified quality or idea)
  表现的，表达的
  the spires are expressive of religious aspiration
  那些尖顶传达着宗教愿望。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We're both very expressive of our thoughts and feelings but she'll tell me straight up what she thinks and what she feels.
  There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh - a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid.
  The pose is natural and expressive of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment.
  That idea of communality is not expressive of contemporary experience.
  She was fully expressive of her feelings; I was more introverted.
  When his physician announced an unfavourable change in his condition, he expressed entire resignation, and requested his friends to sing a hymn expressive of that feeling.
  What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
  The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship.
  The free training class aims to help more people get to know the ancient music - which is an embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and most expressive of the essence of Chinese music.
  Today, on the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow, the kilt and the pipes - and a lot more besides - are not only sexy but also expressive of a new confidence that surges through contemporary Scottish culture.
  Note her definition of art as ‘the practice of creating perceptible forms expressive of human feeling.’
  I just have to be me, unique and expressive of all that is inside just waiting to bust out.
  Of all the journalistic stereotypes regularly committed to celluloid, none has been more expressive of its times than the war correspondent.
  Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition.
  Both gestures celebrated the Italian gift for connecting the intellect with warm human feelings, a gift so admired by many, and expressive of the spirit of the colloquium.
  It is expressive of the dynamic process of ‘give and take’ between partners in an alliance.
  His ideas are no more expressive of sophistic thought than of some very ancient Greek traditions.
  The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends.
  He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
  Reduced to a series of numbers, desire is digitized and is no longer expressive of the individual.
  Synonyms
  indicative, demonstrative, demonstrating, showing, suggesting, revealing, underlining

Derivatives

expressively

adverb ɪkˈsprɛsɪvliɛkˈsprɛsɪvli

It made it possible for him to reinvent the face before him, depicting expressively, through curves and angles, the way the subject felt to him.
Example sentencesExamples
- String players slid expressively from one note to the next - portamento, the style was called - in imitation of the slide of the voice.
- The two women were engaged in animated conversation, the younger one gesturing expressively with well-tended hands and long-manicured fingers.
- He is a pale, broad-shouldered man with a square jaw, spiky black hair, and large eyes that have a tendency to roll expressively about their sockets.
- He might have been wrong - maybe all languages aren't always expressively equivalent, and maybe language habits don't usually predispose our interpretive choices.

expressiveness

noun ɛkˈsprɛsɪvnəsɪkˈsprɛsɪvnəsɪkˈsprɛsɪvnəs

mass noun

The quality of effectively conveying a thought or feeling.
富于表情的；富于表现力的
you will be floored by the expressiveness of her eyes
Example sentencesExamples
- emotional expressiveness in music is sometimes hard to describe in words
- One of her ambitions as a young artist was to create on canvas the sweeping expressiveness of music, its ability to shift agilely from joyous to sorrowful to triumphant.
- We need to approach multimedia presentations with a sense of artistic expressiveness.
- Her beautiful looks and elegant acting were matched by rich tone, expressiveness, and virtuoso technique, which can be heard in her recordings.

expressivity

noun ɛksprɛˈsɪvɪtiɪksprɛˈsɪvɪtiˌɛksprɛˈsɪvədi

Baker's critical project constitutes a search for strategies that help expose the richness, sophistication, and distinctiveness of African American expressivity.
Example sentencesExamples
- Even greater clarity and expressivity are the hallmarks of Elgar's great Concerto for Violincello in E minor Op 85.
- Young girls typically play with one or two other girls in activities that foster their ‘learning emotional skills of empathy, emotional self-awareness, and emotional expressivity.’
- For me, the balance between power and expressivity seems just right.
- The differences might arise from variations in expressivity of these morphological traits in the populations.

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.

Rhymes

aggressive, compressive, concessive, degressive, depressive, digressive, excessive, impressive, obsessive, oppressive, possessive, progressive, recessive, regressive, repressive, retrogressive, successive, transgressive

Definition of expressive in US English:

expressive

adjectiveɪkˈsprɛsɪvikˈspresiv

1Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
富于表情的；富于表现力的
Example sentencesExamples
- Caroline is more than just a pretty face and expressive voice on the stage.
- Her face was expressive and her emotions streamed through like light streams through glass.
- Her aim now is to explore a more expressive, fine art interpretation.
- Her work is particularly vibrant and expressive, and her animals come alive on the canvas.
- Emptiness is as full as fullness, and the whiteness of the paper is as expressive as the marks made upon it.
- Bertie gave an expressive grunt, which conveyed his opinion that there was no accounting for tastes.
- Iwan is an expressive performer, jumping around the stage, screaming and shouting.
- You can be bold and expressive at this point to get your message across in high places and to important people.
- According to Conrad, there are limits to the expressive capacities of narrative film.
- Each of the twelve songs on this album are composed of beautifully expressive and intimate lyrics.
- Some of these highly expressive conversations took place in very public places.
- His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy.
- He thrived on the atmosphere and whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his expressive displays of emotions.
- Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour.
- Sometimes the effects are so expressive you can't believe chance did this.
- The prints range in subject from expressive individual figures to more complex detailed narrative scenes.
- He's from the old school, motioning you ahead of him through doorways with a graceful wave of his expressive hands.
- I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
- The Chamber Choir brought the first half to a climax with an expressive performance of Cantique de Jean Racine.
- As passionate and expressive as she is in her acting roles, as an interviewee she can be extremely difficult.
Synonyms
eloquent, meaningful, telling, revealing, demonstrative, suggestive
emotional, full of emotion, full of feeling, indicating emotion, indicating feeling, passionate, intense, deeply felt, poignant, moving, stirring, striking, evocative, artistic
1. 1.1expressive ofpredicative Conveying (a specified quality or idea)
  表现的，表达的
  the spires are expressive of religious aspiration
  那些尖顶传达着宗教愿望。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The free training class aims to help more people get to know the ancient music - which is an embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and most expressive of the essence of Chinese music.
  Today, on the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow, the kilt and the pipes - and a lot more besides - are not only sexy but also expressive of a new confidence that surges through contemporary Scottish culture.
  Reduced to a series of numbers, desire is digitized and is no longer expressive of the individual.
  When his physician announced an unfavourable change in his condition, he expressed entire resignation, and requested his friends to sing a hymn expressive of that feeling.
  There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh - a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid.
  That idea of communality is not expressive of contemporary experience.
  It is expressive of the dynamic process of ‘give and take’ between partners in an alliance.
  I just have to be me, unique and expressive of all that is inside just waiting to bust out.
  Note her definition of art as ‘the practice of creating perceptible forms expressive of human feeling.’
  We're both very expressive of our thoughts and feelings but she'll tell me straight up what she thinks and what she feels.
  Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition.
  Of all the journalistic stereotypes regularly committed to celluloid, none has been more expressive of its times than the war correspondent.
  What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
  The pose is natural and expressive of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment.
  His ideas are no more expressive of sophistic thought than of some very ancient Greek traditions.
  She was fully expressive of her feelings; I was more introverted.
  The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends.
  He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
  Both gestures celebrated the Italian gift for connecting the intellect with warm human feelings, a gift so admired by many, and expressive of the spirit of the colloquium.
  The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship.
  Synonyms
  indicative, demonstrative, demonstrating, showing, suggesting, revealing, underlining

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘tending to press out’): from French expressif, -ive or medieval Latin expressivus, from exprimere ‘press out’ (see express). Compare with express.

词汇	expressive
释义	Definition of expressive in English: expressive adjective ɪkˈsprɛsɪvɛkˈsprɛsɪvɪkˈsprɛsɪv 1Effectively conveying thought or feeling. 富于表情的；富于表现力的 she has big expressive eyes Example sentencesExamples He thrived on the atmosphere and whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his expressive displays of emotions. His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy. Her work is particularly vibrant and expressive, and her animals come alive on the canvas. As passionate and expressive as she is in her acting roles, as an interviewee she can be extremely difficult. Each of the twelve songs on this album are composed of beautifully expressive and intimate lyrics. Bertie gave an expressive grunt, which conveyed his opinion that there was no accounting for tastes. Emptiness is as full as fullness, and the whiteness of the paper is as expressive as the marks made upon it. You can be bold and expressive at this point to get your message across in high places and to important people. Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour. Some of these highly expressive conversations took place in very public places. Iwan is an expressive performer, jumping around the stage, screaming and shouting. The prints range in subject from expressive individual figures to more complex detailed narrative scenes. Her aim now is to explore a more expressive, fine art interpretation. Her face was expressive and her emotions streamed through like light streams through glass. He's from the old school, motioning you ahead of him through doorways with a graceful wave of his expressive hands. Sometimes the effects are so expressive you can't believe chance did this. I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title. Caroline is more than just a pretty face and expressive voice on the stage. According to Conrad, there are limits to the expressive capacities of narrative film. The Chamber Choir brought the first half to a climax with an expressive performance of Cantique de Jean Racine. Synonyms 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 1.1expressive of Conveying (a specified quality or idea) 表现的，表达的 the spires are expressive of religious aspiration 那些尖顶传达着宗教愿望。 Example sentencesExamples We're both very expressive of our thoughts and feelings but she'll tell me straight up what she thinks and what she feels. There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh - a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid. The pose is natural and expressive of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment. That idea of communality is not expressive of contemporary experience. She was fully expressive of her feelings; I was more introverted. When his physician announced an unfavourable change in his condition, he expressed entire resignation, and requested his friends to sing a hymn expressive of that feeling. What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity? The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship. The free training class aims to help more people get to know the ancient music - which is an embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and most expressive of the essence of Chinese music. Today, on the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow, the kilt and the pipes - and a lot more besides - are not only sexy but also expressive of a new confidence that surges through contemporary Scottish culture. Note her definition of art as ‘the practice of creating perceptible forms expressive of human feeling.’ I just have to be me, unique and expressive of all that is inside just waiting to bust out. Of all the journalistic stereotypes regularly committed to celluloid, none has been more expressive of its times than the war correspondent. Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition. Both gestures celebrated the Italian gift for connecting the intellect with warm human feelings, a gift so admired by many, and expressive of the spirit of the colloquium. It is expressive of the dynamic process of ‘give and take’ between partners in an alliance. His ideas are no more expressive of sophistic thought than of some very ancient Greek traditions. The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends. He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste. Reduced to a series of numbers, desire is digitized and is no longer expressive of the individual. Synonyms indicative, demonstrative, demonstrating, showing, suggesting, revealing, underlining Derivatives expressively adverb ɪkˈsprɛsɪvliɛkˈsprɛsɪvli It made it possible for him to reinvent the face before him, depicting expressively, through curves and angles, the way the subject felt to him. Example sentencesExamples String players slid expressively from one note to the next - portamento, the style was called - in imitation of the slide of the voice. The two women were engaged in animated conversation, the younger one gesturing expressively with well-tended hands and long-manicured fingers. He is a pale, broad-shouldered man with a square jaw, spiky black hair, and large eyes that have a tendency to roll expressively about their sockets. He might have been wrong - maybe all languages aren't always expressively equivalent, and maybe language habits don't usually predispose our interpretive choices. expressiveness noun ɛkˈsprɛsɪvnəsɪkˈsprɛsɪvnəsɪkˈsprɛsɪvnəs mass noun The quality of effectively conveying a thought or feeling. 富于表情的；富于表现力的 you will be floored by the expressiveness of her eyes Example sentencesExamples emotional expressiveness in music is sometimes hard to describe in words One of her ambitions as a young artist was to create on canvas the sweeping expressiveness of music, its ability to shift agilely from joyous to sorrowful to triumphant. We need to approach multimedia presentations with a sense of artistic expressiveness. Her beautiful looks and elegant acting were matched by rich tone, expressiveness, and virtuoso technique, which can be heard in her recordings. expressivity noun ɛksprɛˈsɪvɪtiɪksprɛˈsɪvɪtiˌɛksprɛˈsɪvədi Baker's critical project constitutes a search for strategies that help expose the richness, sophistication, and distinctiveness of African American expressivity. Example sentencesExamples Even greater clarity and expressivity are the hallmarks of Elgar's great Concerto for Violincello in E minor Op 85. Young girls typically play with one or two other girls in activities that foster their ‘learning emotional skills of empathy, emotional self-awareness, and emotional expressivity.’ For me, the balance between power and expressivity seems just right. The differences might arise from variations in expressivity of these morphological traits in the populations. 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. Rhymes aggressive, compressive, concessive, degressive, depressive, digressive, excessive, impressive, obsessive, oppressive, possessive, progressive, recessive, regressive, repressive, retrogressive, successive, transgressive Definition of expressive in US English: expressive adjectiveɪkˈsprɛsɪvikˈspresiv 1Effectively conveying thought or feeling. 富于表情的；富于表现力的 Example sentencesExamples Caroline is more than just a pretty face and expressive voice on the stage. Her face was expressive and her emotions streamed through like light streams through glass. Her aim now is to explore a more expressive, fine art interpretation. Her work is particularly vibrant and expressive, and her animals come alive on the canvas. Emptiness is as full as fullness, and the whiteness of the paper is as expressive as the marks made upon it. Bertie gave an expressive grunt, which conveyed his opinion that there was no accounting for tastes. Iwan is an expressive performer, jumping around the stage, screaming and shouting. You can be bold and expressive at this point to get your message across in high places and to important people. According to Conrad, there are limits to the expressive capacities of narrative film. Each of the twelve songs on this album are composed of beautifully expressive and intimate lyrics. Some of these highly expressive conversations took place in very public places. His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy. He thrived on the atmosphere and whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his expressive displays of emotions. Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour. Sometimes the effects are so expressive you can't believe chance did this. The prints range in subject from expressive individual figures to more complex detailed narrative scenes. He's from the old school, motioning you ahead of him through doorways with a graceful wave of his expressive hands. I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title. The Chamber Choir brought the first half to a climax with an expressive performance of Cantique de Jean Racine. As passionate and expressive as she is in her acting roles, as an interviewee she can be extremely difficult. Synonyms eloquent, meaningful, telling, revealing, demonstrative, suggestive emotional, full of emotion, full of feeling, indicating emotion, indicating feeling, passionate, intense, deeply felt, poignant, moving, stirring, striking, evocative, artistic 1.1expressive ofpredicative Conveying (a specified quality or idea) 表现的，表达的 the spires are expressive of religious aspiration 那些尖顶传达着宗教愿望。 Example sentencesExamples The free training class aims to help more people get to know the ancient music - which is an embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and most expressive of the essence of Chinese music. Today, on the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow, the kilt and the pipes - and a lot more besides - are not only sexy but also expressive of a new confidence that surges through contemporary Scottish culture. Reduced to a series of numbers, desire is digitized and is no longer expressive of the individual. When his physician announced an unfavourable change in his condition, he expressed entire resignation, and requested his friends to sing a hymn expressive of that feeling. There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh - a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid. That idea of communality is not expressive of contemporary experience. It is expressive of the dynamic process of ‘give and take’ between partners in an alliance. I just have to be me, unique and expressive of all that is inside just waiting to bust out. Note her definition of art as ‘the practice of creating perceptible forms expressive of human feeling.’ We're both very expressive of our thoughts and feelings but she'll tell me straight up what she thinks and what she feels. Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition. Of all the journalistic stereotypes regularly committed to celluloid, none has been more expressive of its times than the war correspondent. What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity? The pose is natural and expressive of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment. His ideas are no more expressive of sophistic thought than of some very ancient Greek traditions. She was fully expressive of her feelings; I was more introverted. The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends. He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste. Both gestures celebrated the Italian gift for connecting the intellect with warm human feelings, a gift so admired by many, and expressive of the spirit of the colloquium. The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship. Synonyms indicative, demonstrative, demonstrating, showing, suggesting, revealing, underlining Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘tending to press out’): from French expressif, -ive or medieval Latin expressivus, from exprimere ‘press out’ (see express). Compare with express.
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