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evocative

[ ih-vok-uh-tiv, ih-voh-kuh- ]

adjective

  1. tending to evoke:

    The perfume was evocative of spring.



evocative

/ ɪˈvɒkətɪv /

adjective

  1. tending or serving to evoke


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Derived Forms

  • eˈvocativeness, noun
  • eˈvocatively, adverb

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Other Words From

  • e·voca·tive·ly adverb
  • e·voca·tive·ness noun
  • none·voca·tive adjective
  • une·voca·tive adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of evocative1

1650–60; < Latin ēvocātīvus, equivalent to ēvocāt ( us ) ( evoke, -ate 1 ) + -īvus -ive

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Example Sentences

“We look for the qualities that are evocative of V.S.O.P Privilege,” explained Hennessy Senior Vice President Rodney Williams.

Another evocative term was coined a few years later, in 1995.

Even his name is a nom de guerre: Before launching the Temple, he went by the somewhat less evocative Doug Mesner.

Both are literally depictions of magical air, evocative of movement and potency stirring inside a writhing cloud.

After Hurricane Sandy, the NWS concluded that it should use similarly evocative language for storm-surge warnings.

Had he so soon forgotten that strange union of form and sound which once was known to the evocative rituals of olden days?

His verse is very evocative; in several syllables he forces his vision on us.

It was a sound, he realized in a flash, evocative and summoning.

What matter, then, if Michelet was the least trustworthy of historians since he was the most personal and the most evocative?

What could be more evocative of Salome than her kneeling before Julien's severed head?

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