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passionative

passionative adjective: relating to passionate or impassioned speech or gesture.

Adjective

passionative (comparative more passionative, superlative most passionative)

  1. (archaic) Relating to passionate or impassioned speech or gesture.
    • And under the use of all the expressive powers of quality, time, force, abruptness and pitch, the vivid character of the passionative.1859, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice, page 486
    • Passionative gestures express all highly wrought and uncontrolled excitements, such as anger, rage, fury […]1870, The American Educational Monthly, volume 7, page 22

Forms of passionative

comparativemore passionative
superlativemost passionative

Questions about passionative

What does passionative mean?
Passionative means relating to passionate or impassioned speech or gesture.
What part of speech is passionative?
Passionative is an adjective.

Words near passionative in the dictionary

  1. passionated
  2. passionately
  3. passionateness
  4. passionates
  5. passionating
  6. passionative
  7. passioned
  8. passionflower
  9. passionflowers
  10. passionfruit
  11. passionfruits

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