expressive

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: expressiu
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, zeggingskrachtig,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: expresivo
 * Georgian: გამომეტყველებითი, გამომხატველობითი, გამომეტყველი, გამომხატველი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φραστικός
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pūkare
 * Occitan: expressiu
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, plin de expresie
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1)  Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
 * 2) * 2017, Tammi Leann Stout, An investigation of projection and temporal reference in Kaqchikel (dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin):
 * Consider the case of expressives, where no prior knowledge of the speaker’s attitudes are required to interpret the utterance. In (43) ["That jerk Alexa keeps making me look bad"], Steve does not need to know (and in fact has no prior knowledge of) anything relating to Siri’s attitudes towards Alexa to interpret that Siri has a negative attitude about Alexa. It is the expressive that jerk that implies the negative attitude.
 * 1)  A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an ), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of.
 * 2) * 2017, Sam Gray, Classifications of Mundari Expressives and Other Reduplicated Structures (thesis):
 * I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms.
 * 1) * 2017, Sam Gray, Classifications of Mundari Expressives and Other Reduplicated Structures (thesis):
 * I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms.
 * I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms.