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emotive (comparative more emotive, superlative most emotive)

1. Of or relating to emotion.
2. Appealing to the emotions.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity.

3. (grammar) Expressing an emotion.

emotive (plural emotives)

1. (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion.

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emotive

1. inflection of emotiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

emotive f pl

1. feminine plural of emotivo

emotive f

1. plural of emotiva

• mietevo