Thesaurus / demonstrative
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Grown-up giraffes just aren’t huggy, cuddling, demonstrative animals.
HAVING MORE FRIENDS MAY HELP FEMALE GIRAFFES LIVE LONGERSUSAN MILIUSFEBRUARY 25, 2021SCIENCE NEWSWalking with arms encircling waists, or such demonstrative tokens of love, are marks of low breeding.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYBut perhaps you are a chemist, and proud, as most chemists are, of the accuracy attainable in that most demonstrative science.
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARDA cold reserve on Frederick's part had succeeded the demonstrative affection that had formerly existed between mother and son.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEAsused here in its demonstrative meaning, to introduce a parenthetical clause.
THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGERShe was preternaturally animated and demonstrative at the station—your sex's little guileful way ever since the world began.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEI observed, as my uncle spoke, that his voice was unnaturally moved and his manner unwontedly demonstrative.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe had no sooner turned his back than the general relief broke out irrepressibly; Ormsby being especially demonstrative.
THE TALKING HORSEF. ANSTEYThe demonstrative adverb thus implies a relative adverb: comp.
MILTON'S COMUSJOHN MILTONKea pointed out to us with demonstrative finger the various floors or ledges on the inner wall.
THE WHITE MAN'S FOOTGRANT ALLENWORDS RELATED TO DEMONSTRATIVE
- allegorical
- analytical
- annotative
- critical
- declarative
- demonstrative
- diagrammatic
- discursive
- elucidative
- elucidatory
- enlightening
- exegetic
- exegetical
- explanative
- explicative
- expositional
- expositive
- expository
- graphic
- guiding
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutical
- illuminative
- illustrative
- informative
- informing
- instructive
- interpretive
- justifying
- summary
- supplementary
- allegorical
- analytical
- annotative
- critical
- declarative
- demonstrative
- diagrammatic
- discursive
- elucidative
- elucidatory
- enlightening
- exegetic
- exegetical
- explanative
- explicative
- expositional
- expositive
- expository
- graphic
- guiding
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutical
- illuminative
- illustrative
- informative
- informing
- instructive
- interpretative
- justifying
- summary
- supplementary
- admiring
- affectionate
- amatory
- amiable
- amorous
- anxious
- appreciative
- ardent
- attached
- attentive
- benevolent
- caring
- concerned
- considerate
- cordial
- dear
- demonstrative
- devoted
- doting
- earnest
- enamored
- erotic
- expressive
- faithful
- fervent
- fond
- friendly
- generous
- idolatrous
- impassioned
- infatuated
- kind
- liking
- loyal
- passionate
- respecting
- reverent
- reverential
- romantic
- sentimental
- solicitous
- tender
- thoughtful
- valuing
- warm
- warm-hearted
- worshipful
- zealous
- ascendant
- assertive
- authoritative
- bossy
- chief
- commanding
- demonstrative
- despotic
- domineering
- effective
- first
- foremost
- governing
- imperative
- imperious
- leading
- main
- obtaining
- overbalancing
- overbearing
- overweighing
- paramount
- powerful
- predominant
- predominate
- preeminent
- preponderant
- presiding
- prevailing
- prevalent
- principal
- regnant
- reigning
- ruling
- sovereign
- supreme
- surpassing
- transcendent
- agitated
- anarchic
- angry
- bitter
- boisterous
- chaotic
- demonstrative
- destructive
- disorderly
- excited
- fierce
- fiery
- foaming
- insubordinate
- lawless
- mutinous
- obstreperous
- passionate
- perturbed
- quarrelsome
- rabid
- rambunctious
- rampant
- raucous
- refractory
- riotous
- rough
- roughhouse
- rowdy
- rude
- seditious
- shaking
- stern
- storming
- termagant
- tumultous/tumultuous
- unbridled
- uncontrolled
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unruly
- untamed
- uproarious
- vehement
- violent
- vociferous
- wild
- admiring
- affectionate
- amatory
- amiable
- amorous
- anxious
- appreciative
- ardent
- attached
- attentive
- benevolent
- bound up
- caring
- concerned
- considerate
- cordial
- dear
- demonstrative
- devoted
- doting
- earnest
- enamored
- erotic
- expressive
- faithful
- fervent
- fond
- friendly
- generous
- idolatrous
- impassioned
- infatuated
- kind
- liking
- loyal
- passionate
- respecting
- reverent
- reverential
- romantic
- sentimental
- solicitous
- tender
- thoughtful
- valuing
- warm
- warm-hearted
- worshipful
- zealous
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- sobby
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
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