emotive

Speech parts

1. emotive - Noun

2. emotive - Adjective

3. emotive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

affective affectional difficult moving powerful controversial dramatic feeling sensitive emotional animated affecting problematic impressive touching
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Antonyms

down-to-earth blue stoic phlegmatic controlled DRY
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Examples

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. Albert Ellis

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. Boz Scaggs

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life. Susanne Langer

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. Jean-Philippe Rameau

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news. Joanne Froggatt

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. Nick Rhodes

Close letter words and terms

emotionlessness emotionlike emotionology emotively emotiveness emotivism