 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
demonstrative
adjective
1: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an
affectionate and demonstrative family" [ant: {undemonstrative}]
2: serving to demonstrate [syn: {illustrative}]
noun: a pronoun that points out an intended referent [syn: {demonstrative
pronoun}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Demonstrative \De*mon"stra*tive\, adjective [F. d['e]monstratif, L.
demonstrativus.]
1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to
demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or
conclusively. ''Demonstrative figures.'' --Dryden.
An argument necessary and demonstrative. --Hooker.
2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or
sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. ''Demonstrative
eloquence.'' --Blair.
{Demonstrative pronoun} (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly
designating that to which it refers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Demonstrative \De*mon"stra*tive\, noun (Gram.)
A demonstrative pronoun; as, ''this'' and ''that'' are
demonstratives.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "demonstrative":
Christophanic, Satanophanic, accessible, adoring, affectional,
affectionate, affective, allegorizing, angelophanic, annotative,
apodictic, appearing, approachable, candid, clarifying,
communicative, conjugal, connotative, conversable, critical,
demonstrating, demonstrational, demythologizing, denominative,
denotative, designative, devoted, diagnostic, disclosive,
displaying, editorial, effusive, elucidative, emblematic,
emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive,
enlightening, epiphanic, euhemeristic, evident, evidential,
evincive, exegetic, exemplificative, exhibitive, expansive,
explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositional,
expositive, expository, expressive, extroverted, faithful, feeling,
figural, figurative, filial, fond, frank, free, free-speaking,
free-spoken, free-tongued, glandular, glossarial, gossipy, gut,
husbandly, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, illuminating,
illuminative, illustrative, implicative, incarnating,
incarnational, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual,
languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, manifestative,
materializing, maternal, meaningful, melting, metaphorical, naming,
newsy, of soul, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken,
overdemonstrative, parental, paternal, pathognomonic, peculiar,
plain, pneumatophanic, presentational, probative, profuse,
promulgatory, provable, rationalistic, rationalizing,
representative, revelational, revelatory, romantic, scholiastic,
self-revealing, self-revelatory, semantic, semiotic, sentimental,
showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying,
sociable, soft, soulful, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic,
symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, talkative, tender,
theophanic, typical, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed,
unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive,
unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, uxorious, visceral, warm,
wifely
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