| 单词 | expressive |
| 释义 | expressive (once / 601 pages) adj Big smiles, loud crying, jumping for joy, and making crazy art are all expressive, which is to effectively show feelings. Anything that communicates thoughts or feelings is expressive. Expressive comes from the French word expres for "clear, plain.” It’s easy to read people who are expressive, their emotions are clear. Smiling, laughing, shouting, crying, and pouting are all expressive. So is art, whether it's music, sculpture, or writing. This is a word that applies to things that communicate. If you're not revealing how you feel, you're not being expressive. WORD FAMILYexpressive: expressively, expressiveness, inexpressive, unexpressive+/express: expressage, expressed, expressedly, expresses, expressible, expressing, expression, expressive, expressly/expressed: unexpressed/expressible: expressibly, inexpressible, unexpressible/expression: expressionism, expressionless, expressions, self-expression/expressionism: expressionisms, expressionist, expressionistic, neoexpressionism/expressionist: expressionists/expressionless: expressionlessly/inexpressible: inexpressibly/inexpressive: inexpressively/unexpressible: unexpressibly/unexpressive: unexpressively USAGE EXAMPLESWith gangly limbs, big, expressive eyes and an entire vocabulary’s worth of colorful grunts and groans at her disposal, she’s equally good at nonverbal comedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) Elephants are smart, sure, but they are also emotionally expressive. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) Over a few hours of conversation, he toggled between being marginally expressive and almost poetic. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) adj characterized by expression a very expressive face Syn communicative, communicatory able or tending to communicate |
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