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demonstrative
[ duh-mon-struh-tiv ]
adjective
- characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection:
She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- serving to demonstrate; explanatory or illustrative.
- serving to prove the truth of anything; indubitably conclusive.
- Grammar. indicating or singling out the thing referred to. This is a demonstrative pronoun.
noun
- Grammar. a demonstrative word, as this or there.
demonstrative
/ dɪˈmɒnstrətɪv /
adjective
- tending to manifest or express one's feelings easily or unreservedly
- postpositivefoll byof serving as proof; indicative
- involving or characterized by demonstration
a demonstrative lecture
- conclusive; indubitable
demonstrative arguments
- grammar denoting or belonging to a class of determiners used to point out the individual referent or referents intended, such as this, that, these, and those Compare interrogative relative
noun
- grammar a demonstrative word or construction
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Derived Forms
- deˈmonstratively, adverb
- deˈmonstrativeness, noun
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Other Words From
- de·monstra·tive·ly adverb
- de·monstra·tive·ness noun
- nonde·monstra·tive adjective
- nonde·monstra·tive·ly adverb
- nonde·monstra·tive·ness noun
- prede·monstra·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of demonstrative1
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Example Sentences
Grown-up giraffes just aren’t huggy, cuddling, demonstrative animals.
There is something about a clown that stays with people: the bright colors, their tendency to be demonstrative.
A decade ago, Junger says, he would not have departed from a strict journalistic style to be demonstrative about himself.
Walking with arms encircling waists, or such demonstrative tokens of love, are marks of low breeding.
But perhaps you are a chemist, and proud, as most chemists are, of the accuracy attainable in that most demonstrative science.
A cold reserve on Frederick's part had succeeded the demonstrative affection that had formerly existed between mother and son.
Asused here in its demonstrative meaning, to introduce a parenthetical clause.
She was preternaturally animated and demonstrative at the station—your sex's little guileful way ever since the world began.
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