Demonstrative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Serving to manifest or prove.
  • adj. Involving or characterized by demonstration.
  • adj. Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion: an affectionate and demonstrative family.
  • adj. Grammar Specifying or singling out the person or thing referred to: the demonstrative pronouns these and that.
  • n. Grammar A demonstrative pronoun or adjective.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
  • adj. given to open displays of emotion
  • adj. that specifies the thing or person referred to
  • n. A demonstrative adjective.
  • n. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
  • adj. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment.
  • adj. Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
  • n. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exhibiting or indicating with clearness: as, a demonstrative figure in painting.
  • In rhetoric, expressing or explaining with clearness, force, and beauty.
  • Characterized by or given to the strong exhibition of any feeling or quality; energetically expressive: as, a demonstrative manner; a demonstrative person.
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of proof; having the power of proving or demonstrating; indubitably conclusive: as, a demonstrative argument; demonstrative reasoning.
  • n. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. serving to demonstrate
  • adj. given to or marked by the open expression of emotion
  • n. a pronoun that points out an intended referent
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    possessive    effusive    cordial    excitable    pronominal