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evocative

UK/ɪˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/

evocative adjective: that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.

evocative: green trees covered with fog
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Adjective

evocative (comparative more evocative, superlative most evocative)

  1. That evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.
    • Using loose but evocative language, one might say that player 2 is threatening to play R' if player 1 plays R.1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 127f.
    • Imperfect themes aside, what the first Zootopia had going for it was its gorgeous animation and evocative character design. From the clever visual worldbuilding of its city to the lush colors and textures of a nighttime chase through the Rainforest District, Zootopia was part of a wave of projects...2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club

evocative meaning in Malayalam

evocative in Malayalam

suggestive, reminiscent, redolent
സ്മരണകളെ ഉണർത്തുന്ന, ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, വിളിച്ചരുത്തുന്ന, സ്മാരക, സ്മരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, അനുസ്മരണാത്മകമായ

Examples of evocative in a sentence

  • The larghetto from this suite is one of the composer’s most evocative works.
  • The comic-book artist was renowned for his sparse yet evocative inkwork.
  • Face it. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an absurd yet evocative expression.

All 21 example sentences with evocative

Synonyms of evocative

All synonyms of evocative

Forms of evocative

comparativemore evocative
superlativemost evocative

Origin of evocative

From Latin ēvocātīvus (“pertaining to summoning”). By surface analysis, evoke + -ative.

Words formed from evocative

Questions about evocative

What does evocative mean?
Evocative means that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.
What is evocative in Malayalam?
Evocative in Malayalam is സ്മരണകളെ ഉണർത്തുന്ന, ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, വിളിച്ചരുത്തുന്ന. See Evocative meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is evocative?
Evocative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce evocative?
Evocative is pronounced /ɪˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/ (UK).

Words near evocative in the dictionary

  1. evocates
  2. evocating
  3. evocation
  4. evocationism
  5. evocations
  6. evocative
  7. evocatively
  8. evocativeness
  9. evocator
  10. evocators
  11. evocatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evocative (page history and authors); evocative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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