Demonstrative

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Demonstrative \De*mon"stra*tive\, n. (Gram.)
     A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are
     demonstratives.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Demonstrative \De*mon"stra*tive\, a. [F. d['e]monstratif, L.
     demonstrativus.]
     1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to
        demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or
        conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." --Dryden.
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              An argument necessary and demonstrative. --Hooker.
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     2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or
        sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
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     3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative
        eloquence." --Blair.
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     {Demonstrative pronoun} (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly
        designating that to which it refers.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  demonstrative
       adj 1: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an
              affectionate and demonstrative family" [ant: {undemonstrative}]
       2: serving to demonstrate [syn: {illustrative}]
       n : a pronoun that points out an intended referent [syn: {demonstrative
           pronoun}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "demonstrative":
     Christophanic, Satanophanic, accessible, adoring, affectional,
     affectionate, affective, allegorizing, angelophanic, annotative,
     apodictic, appearing, approachable, candid, clarifying,
     communicative, conjugal, connotative, conversable, critical,
     demonstrating, demonstrational, demythologizing, denominative,
     denotative, designative, devoted, diagnostic, disclosive,
     displaying, editorial, effusive, elucidative, emblematic,
     emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive,
     enlightening, epiphanic, euhemeristic, evident, evidential,
     evincive, exegetic, exemplificative, exhibitive, expansive,
     explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositional,
     expositive, expository, expressive, extroverted, faithful, feeling,
     figural, figurative, filial, fond, frank, free, free-speaking,
     free-spoken, free-tongued, glandular, glossarial, gossipy, gut,
     husbandly, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, illuminating,
     illuminative, illustrative, implicative, incarnating,
     incarnational, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual,
     languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, manifestative,
     materializing, maternal, meaningful, melting, metaphorical, naming,
     newsy, of soul, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken,
     overdemonstrative, parental, paternal, pathognomonic, peculiar,
     plain, pneumatophanic, presentational, probative, profuse,
     promulgatory, provable, rationalistic, rationalizing,
     representative, revelational, revelatory, romantic, scholiastic,
     self-revealing, self-revelatory, semantic, semiotic, sentimental,
     showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying,
     sociable, soft, soulful, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic,
     symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, talkative, tender,
     theophanic, typical, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed,
     unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive,
     unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, uxorious, visceral, warm,
     wifely