Used in a Sentence

emotive

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for emotive.

Editorial note

Touch or smooth/personal gestures are certainly a bit more personal and emotive than blue and green text bubbles.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Of or relating to emotion.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of emotive gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or relating to emotion.

adjective

Appealing to the emotions.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for emotive.

Example sentences

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Touch or smooth/personal gestures are certainly a bit more personal and emotive than blue and green text bubbles.

2

Eyewitness accounts of highly emotive events such as robberies or crashes are notoriously unreliable, yet the witnesses swear on their accuracy, and describe events in detail -- inaccurately.

3

It is full of emotive gibberish that creates wonderful imagery and feeling out of meaningless sounds.

4

It's the same hyperbolic and emotive language that is used in these discussions.

5

I am always suspicious of a lot of emotive campaigning in response to trade agreements that opens up trade.

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I would decide that measuring emotive packets is difficult w/out cadence level measuring the baseline or determining on a semantic level, what the emotive packets are based off an intell library.

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The first time I discovered the Mandelbrot set was an incredibly emotive and beautiful experience.

8

I would say that Paul was throughtful, but very emotive - remember the lecture about mood being a thing for cattle?

9

It elicits an emotive reaction to want to scroll further down.

10

> my perception of him from the books was a very thoughtful if not perhaps demonstratively emotive young man.

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Its the most worthless type of internet activism, people unwilling or unable to submit to rational debate about an issue, either because they are too lazy or the issue is too emotive, so they resort to factionalism.

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However, I find that emotive people and political correctness break this pattern.

Quote examples

1

A nice non emotive conclusion that can be paraphrased as: The "Droid" is the better phone while the iPhone is the better facebook and Twitter client.

2

"If you don't like it, live in a Communist country" adds an emotive element.

3

This problem sneaks up on us, because in non-emotive contexts it's normally acceptable to say "what percentage of users will be affected by this?", and if it's below a certain percentage it may be the case that it's not worth the cost of fixing the problem.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use emotive in a sentence?

Touch or smooth/personal gestures are certainly a bit more personal and emotive than blue and green text bubbles.

What does emotive mean?

Of or relating to emotion.

What part of speech is emotive?

emotive is commonly used as adjective, noun.