expressive

Plural: expressives

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by expression
  • "a very expressive face"

Adj

• Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
• Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
• Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.

Noun

• Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
• A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

Examples

• A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.
• expressive dancing

Synonyms

sound-symbolic

Antonyms

inexpressive, unexpressive

Related Words

expressivity

Anagrams of expressive