expressive
Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
Example
“expressive dancing”
Other meanings
Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
“A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.”
Related words
- antiexpressive
- expressivism
- expressivist
- misexpressive
- nonexpressive
- superexpressive
- expressively
- expressiveness
- expressive aphasia
- expressive language
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “expressive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.