expressive

Meanings

Adjective

• Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

Noun

• Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
• A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

Related

Opposite words

• inexpressive
• unexpressive

Origin

• From Middle French expressif