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evocative

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

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adjective

tending to evoke: The perfume was evocative of spring.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin ēvocātīvus, equivalent to ēvocāt(us) (see evoke, -ate¹) + -īvus -ive

Related forms

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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Once, headlines were meant to be clever or catchy or evocative.

It's a beautiful phrase, evocative of an ideal to which anyone would want to aspire.

All that destruction made your post rather evocative.

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Once, headlines were meant to be clever or catchy or evocative.

It's a beautiful phrase, evocative of an ideal to which anyone would want to aspire.

All that destruction made your post rather evocative.

Evocative photography and info about celebrations worldwide.

Ah, the crack of the baseball bat¿it is for the devoted fan as evocative of the game as the seventh-inning stretch.

Evocative of the pioneering values of this country- independence, hard work and rugged individualism.

Detailed building plans, evocative photographs, and architectural artifacts all reveal the city's past.

Written work is threatened by the evocative power of the screen, and in particular the live screen.

IN the hands of a photographer with vision, a camera can transform an everyday scene into an evocative and memorable image.

As clever, evocative description, this essay is an interesting read.

Also a son's ode to his mother, and an example of how prose can be as evocative as poetry.

The result is an evocative image that gives us a feeling of the site's history.

Thanks for this evocative piece on the packmen, which i enjoyed.

The power of exterior spaces and their ability to be evocative and transport is fascinating to him.

All these people from across the globe convey something incredibly evocative while remaining completely mute.

Caines is able to be both simple and evocative in his designs.

Like all canny entrepreneurs, drug dealers have a knack for branding their goods with evocative names.

Beyond being strongly evocative of place, our articles attempt to speak to the soul of traveling.

Evocative pictures and words to enliven an ordinary day.

It is a powerful, evocative image, and over the years it has been respectfully adapted by many other artists.

But falling off the calendar was the scarily evocative and precise metaphoric phrase for being forgotten by the court system.

Now the town is deserted, its buildings abandoned to the wind-though day-trippers stop by to see the evocative ruins.

Albrecht has given this syndrome an evocative name: solastalgia.

Other dances use the music as an evocative departure point.

Wear an evocative piece of history that symbolizes the end of an era from nearly one century ago.

Most evocative for me is the five-minute time limit.

Gurney has written an evocative epistolary account of two charter members of the privileged set.

The results are sparse and contemplative, unhurried and evocative.

It's an evocative name used to dress up a blindingly obvious concept.

Ancient people the world over illustrated rock walls with paintings or carvings evocative of their environment and belief systems.

To my mind anyway, these windows are curiously evocative and surprisingly intimate.

Leonardo's drawing, evocative of a mortar, could well be the reflecting telescope.

One issue was chock-full of ideas to help teachers enliven their history lessons with evocative and well-chosen primary.

Before you know, the metaphore is so brilliant and evocative that peope start to think it explains something.

Many argue that half-tumbled walls left untouched are moodily evocative and remain available for future study.

The evocative metaphor is beautifully clear and totally works.

The text uses primary sources to bring history to life and features evocative profiles of the major explorers of the age.

For less picky ears and deeper pockets, this is an inspiring new way to play guitar and make unique, evocative sounds.

But two solos stood out for their theatricality and hauntingly evocative moves and gestures.

Warlocks, arcane casters that truck with mysterious powers, have particularly evocative abilities.

Bennett's minimally furnished yet evocative drawings depict more than residential real estate.

I've noticed some fairly evocative disparities in how government approaches work and don't.

Her palette is a curious blend of down-to-earth and dreamily evocative colors.

Some of these are evocative in themselves, while others depend heavily on the interpretation she supplies.

The cord is made of a fabric that's pleasant to the touch, resistant to tangling, and evocative of a guitar cable.

Gurney has written an evocative epistolary account of two charter.

His chosen medium was an evocative form of painted.

Kittredge is an ideal guide not only to the complexities of this evocative homeland but also to the psyche itself".

Your comment should be brief, evocative and insightful, yet based purely on the photo at hand.

Despite such a limited palette, the band's songs were memorable, evocative and accessible.

Fully breathable mesh upper has an evocative piscine look, with netting.

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World English Dictionary

evocative (ɪˈvɒkətɪv)

—*adj*
	tending or serving to evoke

evocatively

—*adv*

evocativeness

—n

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Word Origin & History

evocative

1650s, from L. evocatus (pp. of evocare (see evocation) + -ive.

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