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gestural

gestural adjective: of, pertaining to, or using gestures.

Adjective

gestural

  1. Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.
    • One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic
  2. Relating to gesturalism.

Origin of gestural

From gesture + -al.

Words formed from gestural

Questions about gestural

What does gestural mean?
Gestural means of, pertaining to, or using gestures.
What part of speech is gestural?
Gestural is an adjective.

Words near gestural in the dictionary

  1. gestron
  2. gestrons
  3. gests
  4. Gestuno
  5. gesturable
  6. gestural
  7. gesturalism
  8. gesturalist
  9. gesturalists
  10. gesturalities
  11. gesturality

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