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How to pronounce “expressive”
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Pronunciation guide for expressive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of expressive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why Him? Why Her?
have uh people who are expressive of
- Definition summary
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce expressive
Why Him? Why Her?

have uh people who are expressive of
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “expressive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
- (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
- (programming) Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
- (linguistics, more narrowly) 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.
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