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exclamatory

/ik-sklam-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ɪkˈsklæm əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ɪkˈsklæmətərɪ, -trɪ) //

感叹式的,感叹性的,感叹句,感叹式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : using, containing, or expressing exclamation: an exclamatory sentence.
    • : pertaining to exclamation.

Examples

  • His features are friendly and exaggerated—the gap between his two front teeth, the exclamatory eyebrows.

  • The first of these divisions begins, and the last ends, with an exclamatory ascription of thanks to God.

  • The mark of exclamation is placed after sentences which, though interrogatory in form, are really exclamatory.

  • A full stop is placed at the end of every sentence that is neither exclamatory nor interrogative.

  • His talk had been great, and we had confined ourselves to little exclamatory appreciations and gazes of rapt adoration!

  • She had an abrupt, exclamatory way of speaking that forced back all that Germinie would have liked to confide to her.