gesticulative
gesticulative adjective: of, relating to, using, or accompanied by gesticulation; tending to gesticulate.
Adjective
gesticulative
- Of, relating to, using, or accompanied by gesticulation; tending to gesticulate.
- […] Mr. Hargrave related, with much humour, the tragic-comic scene which had been performed in his ball the preceding night, declaring, that though he could not but laugh at the recollection of poor M. Bertrand’s gesticulative despair, it had really affected him very differently at the time, and...1843, Frances Milton Trollope, chapter 6, in Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion, volume 2, page 125
- […] the two younger actors, their heads in juxtaposition, were already murmurous with subdued chords of song, which old Joe seemed desirous of smothering under a gesticulative oratory,1933, Booth Tarkington, chapter 21, in Presenting Lily Mars, page 216
- Synonyms:
- gesticulatory
Examples of gesticulative in a sentence
- Bertrand’s gesticulative despair, it had really affected him very differently at the time, and that, all jesting apart, he was very sorry for him.1843, Frances Milton Trollope, chapter 6, in Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion, volume 2, page 125:
- There is an old, not specially funny vaudeville act in which the whole troupe builds up and burlesques a dramatic situation simply by different vocal and gesticulative colorations of the word ‘you.’1941, James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, pages 465-466:
- He was a prickly, gesticulative, arrogant man, full of acidulous wit […]1973, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, page 178:
Synonyms of gesticulative
Origin of gesticulative
From gesticulate + -ive.
Words formed from gesticulative
Questions about gesticulative
- What does gesticulative mean?
- Gesticulative means of, relating to, using, or accompanied by gesticulation; tending to gesticulate.
- How do you use gesticulative in a sentence?
- Bertrand’s gesticulative despair, it had really affected him very differently at the time, and that, all jesting apart, he was very sorry for him.
- What part of speech is gesticulative?
- Gesticulative is an adjective.
Words near gesticulative in the dictionary
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