If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people.
[formal]
Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life. [+ of]
...the evocative power of cinema.
Synonyms: expressive, moving, striking, revealing More Synonyms of evocative
evocativelyadverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective]
...the collection of islands evocatively known as the South Seas.
evocative in British English
(ɪˈvɒkətɪv) or evocatory (ɪˈvɒkətərɪ)
adjective
tending or serving to evoke
Derived forms
evocatively (eˈvocatively)
adverb
evocativeness (eˈvocativeness)
noun
evocative in American English
(iˈvɑkətɪv; ɪˈvɑkətɪv)
adjective
1.
tending to evoke a reaction or response, esp. an emotional one
2.
vivid and seemingly realistic as in the artistic representation of a particular time, place, etc.
Derived forms
evocatively (eˈvocatively)
adverb
evocativeness (eˈvocativeness)
noun
Word origin
L evocativus
Examples of 'evocative' in a sentence
evocative
There is something particularly evocative about them.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Who remembers now the evocative names of the old exchanges?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Some of the names are equally evocative.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Plus one of the most evocative names in our industrial history.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Beat that as an evocative name for a rugby club.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Their names are as evocative as the sound of birdsong on a summer's breeze.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
For those with the patience to search, this will prove a wonderfully evocative and various show.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I think it a wonderfully evocative collection of historical artefacts.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The music is wonderfully evocative, taking listeners to sunlit vistas way beyond theconfines of a single room.
The Sun (2010)
Her instinctive relationship with the natural world was coupled with an elegant, evocative and wonderfully descriptive writing style.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The result is an outstandingly evocative portrait of a key moment in our recent history, and a treasure trove of anecdotes.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
After all, it's an evocative name in modern history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The dust jacket of the book shows a wonderfully evocative photograph (see right).
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
An utterly gorgeous album, it paints an evocative portrait of a Scottish coastal village.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The lowering clouds, the sudden downpours, the richly evocative hiss of tarpaulin across closely trimmed lawn?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The snippets of dialogue, picked up from hours and hours of conversations with relatives, are wonderfully evocative.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A wonderfully evocative celebration of the richness and complexity of painting as it is happening at the moment in studios all over Britain.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
IT is perhaps the world's most evocative place name, conjuring up hazy images of a fabled land at the ends of the earth.
The Sun (2012)
In other languages
evocative
British English: evocative ADJECTIVE
If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it produces pleasant emotions and responses in people.
As well as being beautifully written, it is wonderfully evocative of a long-lost era.
American English: evocative
Brazilian Portuguese: evocativo
Chinese: 唤起回忆的
European Spanish: evocador
French: évocateur
German: atmosphärisch
Italian: evocativo
Japanese: 喚情的な
Korean: 좋은 생각을 떠올리게 하는
European Portuguese: evocativo
Latin American Spanish: evocador
(adjective)
Aaron Copland's beautiful and evocative `Appalachian Spring'
Synonyms
expressive
She had a small, expressive face.
moving
striking
revealing
pointed
pregnant
There was a long, pregnant silence.
vivid
one of the most vivid personalities in tennis
meaningful
The two exchanged a quick, meaningful look.
poignant
eloquent
Her only reply was an eloquent glance at the clock.
indicative
suggestive
Additional synonyms
in the sense of eloquent
Definition
visibly or vividly expressive
Her only reply was an eloquent glance at the clock.