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Meaning of "expatiative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXPATIATIVE

expatiative  [ɪkˈspeɪʃɪətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXPATIATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Expatiative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EXPATIATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Verbosity

Verbosity is speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness, which can be found in plain language, and laconism. Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn writers not to be verbose. Similarly, some authors, including Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, use a succinct style and avoid verbosity. Synonyms for verbosity include wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea. Corresponding adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix, grandiloquent, garrulous, and logorrheic. Examples of verbosity are common in political speech, academic prose, and other genres.

Definition of expatiative in the English dictionary

The definition of expatiative in the dictionary is tending to spread; expansive.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXPATIATIVE


appreciative
əˈpriːʃɪətɪv
appropriative
əˈprəʊprɪətɪv
associative
əˈsəʊʃɪətɪv
denunciative
dɪˈnʌnsɪətɪv
depreciative
dɪˈpriːʃɪətɪv
dissociative
dɪˈsəʊsɪətɪv
enunciative
ɪˈnʌnsɪətɪv
exfoliative
ɛksˈfəʊlɪətɪv
initiative
ɪˈnɪʃɪətɪv
palliative
ˈpælɪətɪv
permeative
ˈpɜːmɪətɪv
propitiative
prəˈpɪʃɪətɪv
quietive
ˈkwaɪətɪv
radiative
ˈreɪdɪətɪv
recreative
ˈrɛkrɪətɪv
repudiative
rɪˈpjuːdɪətɪv
sociative
ˈsəʊʃɪətɪv
spoliative
ˈspɒlɪətɪv
substantiative
səbˈstænʃɪətɪv
unappreciative
ˌʌnəˈpriːʃɪətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXPATIATIVE

expansion joint
expansion slot
expansion tank
expansional
expansionary
expansionism
expansionist
expansionistic
expansive
expansively
expansiveness
expansivity
expat
expatiate
expatiation
expatiator
expatiatory
expatriate
expatriation
expatriatism

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXPATIATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
operative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of expatiative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «expatiative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXPATIATIVE

Find out the translation of expatiative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of expatiative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «expatiative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

expatiative
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

expatiative
570 millions of speakers

English

expatiative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

expatiative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

expatiative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

expatiative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

expatiative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

expatiative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

expatiative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekspatriat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

expatiative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

expatiative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

expatiative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Expatiative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

expatiative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

expatiative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पारदर्शक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

expatiative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

expatiative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

expatiative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

expatiative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

expatiative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

expatiative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

expatiative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

expatiative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

expatiative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of expatiative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPATIATIVE»

The term «expatiative» is used very little and occupies the 170.577 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPATIATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «expatiative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «expatiative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about expatiative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXPATIATIVE»

Discover the use of expatiative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to expatiative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Poems of Shelley: Volume Three: 1819 - 1820
Capaciously expatiative, which make His little body like a red balloon, As full of blood as that of hydrogen, Sucked from men's hearts; insatiably he sucks 190 And clings, and pulls—a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot ...
Jack Donovan, Cian Duffy, Kelvin Everest, 2014
2
Making Space in the Works of James Joyce
Apart from implying the inextricable interdependence of space and time as categories (“whenabouts,” “how much times”), the passage suggests that space is “expatiative” and “expatiatory”: it spreads out from wherever it starts and keeps on ...
Valerie Benejam, John Bishop, 2012
3
The works of G.P.R. James, revised and corrected by the author
Having proceeded thus far — which, by the way, is no small length ; for the great difficulty, as Burrel found it, was to place himself fairly on a footing of friendship with Sir Sidney Delaware's family — we must unwillingly abandon the expatiative  ...
George Payne R. James, 1848
4
Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge
Indignation that breathes scorn, and believes deeply in the wrongfulness of the offender, but is not transfigured into malice; strong grief that has not collapsed into despair, are almost as expatiative as love; “0 that I were a mockery-king of snow, ...
Sara Coleridge, Edith Coleridge, 1873
5
The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley
But my Leech — a leech Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings, Capaciously expatiative, which make His little body like a red balloon, As full of blood as that of hydrogen, Sucked from men's hearts ; insatiably he sucks And clingsand ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1847
6
The smuggler
... he contrived, by some well-directed questions in regard to India, to give Mr. Croy land an inducement to deviate from thesarcastic into the expatiative ; and having set him cantering upon one of his hobbies, he left him to finish his excursion, ...
George Payne R. James, 1845
7
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One ...
But my LEEcn—a leech Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings, Capaciously expatiative, which make His little body like a red balloon, As full of blood as that of hydrogen, Sucked from men's hearts; insatiably he sucks And clings and ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1861
8
A study of Shelley: With special reference to his nature poetry
37 1 a leech Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings, Capaciously expatiative , which make His little body like a red balloon, — (Ed. Tyr. 184. 372 When, like a noon-day dawn, there shone again Deliverance. — Epip*. 276. 373 Athwart that ...
Pelham Edgar, 1978
9
R.E.A.L: The Yearbook of Research in English and American L ...
... both Auden's and Miss Rukeyser's poetry as too prosaic and lacking in evocative power: In an extremely desiccated blankverse . . . proceeds the laborious style of flat explanatory statement: it is expatiative, it is analytic, it is rational — in fact, ...
Herbert Grabes, Hans-Jürgen Diller, Hans Bungert, 1984
10
The Complete Poetical Works
... with lubricous round rings, Capaciously expatiative, which make His little body like a red balloon, As full of bloodas thatof hydrogen, Sucked frommen'shearts; insatiably hesucks 190 And clings and pulls — a horse- leech, whose deep maw  ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2014

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXPATIATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term expatiative is used in the context of the following news items.
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The reason why leaders of Western democracies should not visit …
Concerted efforts of the Russian President and his minister of external affairs enabled the fulfillment of a sequence of expatiative measures ... «GroundReport, Mar 15»
2
How to: archive and back up photos
... caducei frounceless yokefellow barleybird wiglet expatiative impregnations photocatalyzer koan adobes slaughteringly nonfactually carroon ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Expatiative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/expatiative>. May 2024 ».
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