Synonyms for gesticulative
- stylistic
- bombastic
- declamatory
- dramatic
- elaborate
- elocutionary
- eloquent
- expressive
- fervid
- forceful
- gesturing
- grandiloquent
- histrionic
- impassioned
- important
- imposing
- inflated
- intoning
- lofty
- long-winded
- loud
- noble
- noisy
- orotund
- ostentatious
- persuasive
- pompous
- senatorial
- stagy
- stentorian
- theatrical
- tumid
- verbose
- vivid
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This might be true if they represented on the stage a gesticulative race.
The driver awoke with a start from profound reverie, looked Kirkwood over, and bowed with gesticulative palms.
A moment more and a captain of gendarmes appears and shouts something in excited, gesticulative French.
WORD ORIGIN
c.1600, from Latin gesticulatus, past participle of gesticulari "to gesture, mimic," from gesticulus "a mimicking gesture," diminutive of gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest). Related: Gesticulated; gesticulating.
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