emotive
Meaning of emotive
adjective
- arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.
animal experimentation is an emotive subject
the issue has proved highly emotive
mid 18th century: from Latin emot- ‘moved’, from the verb emovere (see emotion).
Information about emotive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of emotive
emo-tive
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- emotive is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
emotive synonyms
Meaning affectional:
Meaning (especially of speech or writing) arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings:
Meaning giving rise or likely to give rise to controversy or public disagreement:
Meaning causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial:
Meaning relating to a person's emotions:
Meaning quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences:
Meaning requiring sensitive or careful handling:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning constituting or presenting a problem:
Meaning easily upset or offended; oversensitive:
Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:
Translation of emotive
- Spanish: emocional
- French: émotionnel
- Italian: emotivo, emozionale
Words that rhyme with emotive
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