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evocative
What does evocative mean?
evocative (adjective): that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use evocative in a sentence?
- It's such an evocative metaphor. (Tatoeba sentence #11576516 by shekitten, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce evocative?
/ɪˈvɑkətɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does evocative come from?
From Latin ēvocātīvus (“pertaining to summoning”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of evocative?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “evocative” mean?
no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
Not quite: that's what extinct means.
bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable
Not quite: that's what identical means.
that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent
Right! That's what “evocative” means.
formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
Not quite: that's what aggregate means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “evocative”?
exceptional
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reminiscent
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preliminary
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spectacular
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