Definitions for emotive

emotive e·mo·tive

Spelling: [ih-moh-tiv]
IPA: /ɪˈmoʊ tɪv/

Emotive is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in emotive (eeimotv).

Definitions for emotive

adjective

  1. characterized by or pertaining to emotion:
  2. productive of or directed toward the emotions:

Origin of emotive

First recorded in 1725-35; emot(ion) + -ive

Examples for emotive

He admits your figures to his conscious belief more readily than he would credit them if spoken in an emotive or power tone.

Grimly they pursued the way, automaton-like, unresponsive now to horror or any emotive.

Yet he has an emotive temperament—a glance at his sympathetic eyes will prove it.

Ted Wells, an emotive, powerful giant of a lawyer, is already achieving results for the embattled governor of New York.

Employ the emotive tone to convey ideas of your truthfulness and honor.

Kawakubo is not a designer who excels at communicating joy—at least not the emotive version of it.

It gets us over that initial, high-stakes moment of emotive acclamation, and skips straight to the conversation.

It is an emotive manifestation that stirs one's whole nature and vitalizes every part of the body.

emotive words and evocative phrases give language its power.

Now my life was like a garden in the emotive torpor of spring; now my life was like a flower conscious of the light.

Word Value for emotive
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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