Usually means: Conveying feelings or ideas effectively.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. expressive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expressive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expressive, expressive: Wordnik
  7. expressive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expressive: Wiktionary
  9. expressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expressive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expressive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expressive: Dictionary.com
  13. expressive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expressive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Expressive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. expressive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. expressive: Rhymezone
  18. expressive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. expressive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. expressive: Free Dictionary
  21. expressive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. expressive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. expressive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expressive: Medical dictionary

(Note: See expressively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
adjective:  (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
noun:  (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
noun:  (linguistics, more narrowly) 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.

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