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emotive

/ih-moh-tiv/US // ɪˈmoʊ tɪv //UK // (ɪˈməʊtɪv) //

有感情的,有感情,感性,感性的

Related Words

affective情感,情感的,情感性,感情heartwarming令人心动,令人心动的,温馨的,温馨提示moving挪动,搬家,迁居,迁徙stirring搅动,搅拌,搅拌的,搅动的touching触摸,触摸的,感人的,感人affectional情感的,情感,情感性,感情

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind.
    • : productive of or directed toward the emotions: Artistic distortion is often an emotive use of form.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.emotional
Synonyms
affectional情感的,情感,情感性,感情affective情感,情感的,情感性,感情heartwarming令人心动,令人心动的,温馨的,温馨提示moving挪动,搬家,迁居,迁徙stirring搅动,搅拌,搅拌的,搅动的touching触摸,触摸的,感人的,感人

Examples

  • Music has that ability to transport you with just a couple of lyrics and notes, so emotive.

  • We’re rethinking our emoji to better reflect the world we live in and create a more expressive, emotive, and cohesive experience.

  • Sonantic, a firm that specializes in emotive voices that can laugh and cry or whisper and shout, works with video-game makers and animation studios to supply the voice-overs for their characters.

  • This becomes important because eye contact is such an emotive and powerful tool to use in transporting a participant.

  • That anguish has led many to embrace a more emotive paradigm across academia and the research community, eschewing the traditional veneer of calm-headed scientific objectivity.

  • Emotive words and evocative phrases give language its power.

  • It gets us over that initial, high-stakes moment of emotive acclamation, and skips straight to the conversation.

  • Kawakubo is not a designer who excels at communicating joy—at least not the emotive version of it.

  • Ted Wells, an emotive, powerful giant of a lawyer, is already achieving results for the embattled governor of New York.

  • One can even excite oneself by a reflection or opinion of emotive value, without this emotion having been aroused by anybody else.

  • He admits your figures to his conscious belief more readily than he would credit them if spoken in an emotive or power tone.

  • The emotive (chest or heart) pitch dissipates opposition as naturally as the mind tone provokes a quarrel.

  • Mental, emotive, and power characteristics are signified by various tone pitches.

  • If the thought behind the objection arises principally from feeling, it will nearly always be expressed in an emotive tone.

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