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gesticulatory

gesticulatory adjective: of or relating to a gesticulation; accompanied by gesticulation.

Adjective

gesticulatory (comparative more gesticulatory, superlative most gesticulatory)

  1. Of or relating to a gesticulation; accompanied by gesticulation.
    • a gesticulatory movement
    • On this theme Klesmer’s eloquence, gesticulatory and other, went on for a little while like stray fireworks accidentally ignited, and then sank into immovable silence.1876, George Eliot, chapter 22, in Daniel Deronda, volume 2, page 60
  2. Making frequent gesticulations.
    • The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous.1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11
    • There were vast surging crowds in the Rue de Rivoli, and much bunting, and soldiers and gesticulatory policemen.1908, Arnold Bennett, chapter 4, in The Old Wives’ Tale, page 371

Examples of gesticulatory in a sentence

  • The skinny fellow, with gesticulatory accompaniment, shouted out a long-winded piece about the Chinese people versus American Imperialism.1961, Chin Yang Lee, chapter 12, in Cripple Mah and the New Order, page 63:
  • This mishap has hardly interrupted her animated gesticulatory discourse on the estate she’d visited the week before […]2016, Margaret Drabble, The Dark Flood Rises:
  • Aziz Akkaya, the wildly gesticulatory Besiktas coach, was sufficiently outraged that he earned a second technical foul, the home fans booing and baying as they waved him out of the arena.2024 April 10, Simon Burnton, “London Lions win first EuroCup after second leg fightback against Besiktas”, in The Guardian:

Synonyms of gesticulatory

Forms of gesticulatory

comparativemore gesticulatory
superlativemost gesticulatory

Origin of gesticulatory

From gesticulate + -ory.

Questions about gesticulatory

What does gesticulatory mean?
Gesticulatory means of or relating to a gesticulation; accompanied by gesticulation.
How do you use gesticulatory in a sentence?
The skinny fellow, with gesticulatory accompaniment, shouted out a long-winded piece about the Chinese people versus American Imperialism.
What part of speech is gesticulatory?
Gesticulatory is an adjective.

Words near gesticulatory in the dictionary

  1. gesticulations
  2. gesticulative
  3. gesticulatively
  4. gesticulator
  5. gesticulators
  6. gesticulatory
  7. Gestingthorpe
  8. gestion
  9. gestions
  10. gestodene
  11. gestonorone

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