demonstrative
Speech parts
1. demonstrative - Noun
2. demonstrative - Adjective
3. demonstrative - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
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Examples
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing. If the learning of mathematics reflects to any degree the invention of mathematics, it must have a place for guessing, for plausible inference.
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
The general or amateur student should also get a taste of demonstrative reasoning... he should acquire a standard with which he can compare alleged evidence of all sorts aimed at him in modern life.
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.