expressive
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Synonyms: impressive, expression, excessive, oppressive, inexpressive, pressive, egressive, expensive, depressive, unexpressive, expressure
Antonyms: impressive, expression, excessive, oppressive, inexpressive, pressive, egressive, expensive, depressive, unexpressive, expressure
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Adjective
- Effectively [[convey]]ing [[thought]] or [[feeling]].
- {{lb|en|linguistics}} Conveying the speaker's [[emotion]]s and/or [[attitude]]s, in addition to the [[denotative]] or [[literal]] meaning.
- {{lb|en|programming}} Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
Noun
- {{lb|en|linguistics}} Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
- {{lb|en|linguistics|more narrowly}} A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an {{l|en|onomatopoeia}}), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of {{m|en|ideophone}}.
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