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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈməʊtɪv/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ɪˈmoʊtɪv/

形容詞

emotive (comparative more emotive, superlative most emotive)

1. Of or relating to emotion.
2. Appealing to the emotions.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity.

3. (grammar) Expressing an emotion.

派生語

名詞

emotive (plural emotives)

1. (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion.