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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈmɒn.stɹə.tɪv/, (nonstandard) /ˈdɛm.ən.stɹeɪ.tɪv/
• (General American) IPA: /dɪˈmɑn.stɹə.tɪv/, [dɪˈmɑn.stɹə.ɾɪv], /dəˈmɑn.stɹə.tɪv/, [dəˈmɑn.stɹə.ɾɪv], (nonstandard) /ˈdɛm.ən.stɹeɪ.tɪv/

形容詞

demonstrative (comparative more demonstrative, superlative most demonstrative)

1. That serves to demonstrate, show or prove.

   demonstrative evidence

   • [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     an argument necessary and demonstrative

2. Given to open displays of emotion.
   • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres:

     demonstrative eloquence

   • 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter III:

     He had rather a contempt for demonstrative people, arising from his medical insight into the consequences to health of uncontrolled feeling.

3. (grammar) That specifies the thing or person referred to.

派生語

関連する語

• demonstrable

参考

• performative

名詞

demonstrative (plural demonstratives)

1. (grammar) A demonstrative word
   1. A demonstrative adjective.
   2. A demonstrative pronoun.

派生語

• pronoun demonstrative

副詞

dēmonstrātīvē (not comparable)

1. demonstratively

参照

• “demonstrative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “demonstrative”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.