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ex·pres·sive

(ĭk-sprĕs′ĭv)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characterized by expression: a child's expressive ability.

2. Serving to express or indicate meaning or feeling: actions expressive of frustration.

3. Showing or communicating meaning or feeling effectively: an expressive glance.

ex·pres′sive·ly adv.

ex·pres′sive·ness n.

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Noun

expressiveness - the quality of being expressive

quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

picturesqueness - the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid

expressiveness

noun

Vivid, effective, or persuasive communication in speech or artistic performance:

articulacy, articulateness, eloquence, eloquentness, expression, expressivity, facundity.

Translations

تعْبيريَّه

udtryksfuldhed

Ausdruckskraft

expressivité

expresszivitáskifejezésteljes jellegkifejező erőkifejezõerõ

tjáningarkraftur

zeggingskracht

expresivita

anlamlılık

富有表现力表达性

expressiveness

[ɪksˈpresɪvnɪs] N → expresividad f

expressiveness

[ɪkˈsprɛsɪvnɪs] n [person, behaviour] → expressivité f

expressiveness

n → Ausdruckskraft f; (of face also) → Ausdrucksfähigkeit f

express

(ikˈspres) verb

1. to put into words. He expressed his ideas very clearly.

2. (with oneself etc) to put one's own thoughts into words. You haven't expressed yourself clearly.

3. to show (thoughts, feelings etc) by looks, actions etc. She nodded to express her agreement.

4. to send by fast (postal) delivery. Will you express this letter, please?

adjective

1. travelling, carrying goods etc, especially fast. an express train; express delivery.

2. clearly stated. You have disobeyed my express wishes.

adverb

by express train or fast delivery service. Send your letter express.

noun

1. an express train. the London to Cardiff express.

2. the service provided eg by the post office for carrying goods etc quickly. The parcel was sent by express.

exˈpressly adverb

in clear, definite words. I expressly forbade you to do that.

exˈpression (-ʃən) noun

1. a look on one's face that shows one's feelings. He always has a bored expression on his face.

2. a word or phrase. `Dough' is a slang expression for `money`.

3. (a) showing of thoughts or feelings by words, actions etc. This poem is an expression of his grief.

4. the showing of feeling when eg reciting, reading aloud or playing a musical instrument. Put more expression into your playing!

exˈpressionless adjective

(of a face or voice) showing no feeling. a cold, expressionless tone.

exˈpressive (-siv) adjective

showing meaning or feeling clearly. She has an expressive look on her face.

exˈpressiveness noun

exˈpressively adverb

exˈpressway noun

a divided highway; a motorway.

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Very well; if you tell a German to send your trunk to you by "slow freight," he takes you at your word; he sends it by "slow freight," and you cannot imagine how long you will go on enlarging your admiration of the expressiveness of that phrase in the German tongue, before you get that trunk.

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The discriminating observer we have been supposing might, however, perfectly have measured its expressiveness, and yet have been at a loss to describe it.

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Ruskin; and the comparison was in Katharine's mind, and led her to be more critical of the young man than was fair, for a young man paying a call in a tail-coat is in a different element altogether from a head seized at its climax of expressiveness, gazing immutably from behind a sheet of glass, which was all that remained to her of Mr.

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

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It is a little impaired in its expressiveness by his having a shut-up gape still to dispose of, with watering eyes.

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She is guide to the light he most needs: emotional expressiveness, disclosure about the inner life.

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Nobody seemed to care about the absence of dramatic logic or expressiveness, or that bravura for the sake of applause was the norm.

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