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Meaning of "expressionistic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXPRESSIONISTIC

expressionistic  [ɪkˌsprɛʃ ənˈɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXPRESSIONISTIC

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

WHAT DOES EXPRESSIONISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. The term is sometimes suggestive of angst. In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grünewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works. The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as Naturalism and Impressionism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXPRESSIONISTIC


albinistic
ælbɪnˈɪstɪk
charlatanistic
ˌʃɑːlətənˈɪstɪk
contortionistic
kənˌtɔːʃənˈɪstɪk
Darwinistic
ˌdɑːwɪnˈɪstɪk
exhibitionistic
ˌeksɪˌbɪʃənˈɪstɪk
expansionistic
ɪkˌspænʃ ənˈɪstɪk
feuilletonistic
ˌfʊɪtənˈɪstɪk
illusionistic
ɪˌluːʒənˈɪstɪk
indeterministic
ˌɪndɪˌtɜːmɪnˈɪstɪk
Jansenistic
ˌdʒænsənˈɪstɪk
mammonistic
ˌmæmənˈɪstɪk
melanistic
ˌmelənˈɪstɪk
monistic
mɒnˈɪstɪk
onanistic
ˌəʊnənˈɪstɪk
paganistic
ˌpeɪɡənˈɪstɪk
postimpressionistic
ˌpəʊstɪmˌpreʃənˈɪstɪk
reunionistic
riːˌjuːnjənˈɪstɪk
shamanistic
ˌʃeɪmənˈɪstɪk
ultramodernistic
ˌʌltrəˌmɒdənˈɪstɪk
unionistic
ˌjuːnjənˈɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXPRESSIONISTIC

express rifle
express train
expressage
expresser
expressible
expression
expression mark
expressional
expressionism
expressionist
expressionless
expressionlessly
expressive
expressively
expressiveness
expressivity
expressly
expressman
expressmen
expressness

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXPRESSIONISTIC

anachronistic
artistic
autistic
ballistic
characteristic
deterministic
domestic
futuristic
holistic
linguistic
logistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of expressionistic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «expressionistic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXPRESSIONISTIC

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Translator English - Chinese

表现主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

expresionista
570 millions of speakers

English

expressionistic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

expressionistic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعبيرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экспрессионистской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

expressionista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

expressionistic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

expressionniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Expressionistic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

expressionistische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

表現派の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표현주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Expressionistic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

expressionistic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

expressionistic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अभिव्यक्तीवादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dışavurumcu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

espressionistica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekspresjonistyczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

експресіоністської
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

expresionist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξπρεσιονιστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ekspressionistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

expressionistic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekspresjonistisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of expressionistic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPRESSIONISTIC»

The term «expressionistic» is regularly used and occupies the 86.858 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPRESSIONISTIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXPRESSIONISTIC»

Discover the use of expressionistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to expressionistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The expressionistic style and the theatricality in Stanley ...
I don’t know many filmmakers within their films are more pictorial structures than in the films of Stanley Kubrick. In the following essay, “A Clockwork Orange” will be analyzed in terms of expressionism and theatricality.
Oliver Schill, 2004
2
The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama
pears, as the character's conception of the past becomes the past that matters most. The expressionistic stage more closely resembled that of the Elizabethans, with its multiple devices for exploring interior reality, than it did the formally realistic ...
Patricia R. Schroeder, 1989
3
Constructing Rhetorical Education
5 Like other systems and theories of rhetoric, expressionistic theories of composition have their virtues and shortcomings. On the one hand, by recognizing the power of the individual human voice "to organize experience according to personal ...
Davida Charney, Wilma R. Ebbitt, 1992
4
Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950: Soul and Society in ...
Nevertheless, the assimilation of expressionistic elements into such canonical American plays as Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth ( 1 942), The Glass Menagerie ( 1 945) (especially the reading edition), A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1  ...
Dennis G. Jerz, 2003
5
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of ...
Berlin identifies three rhetorics- expressionistic rhetoric, cognitive rhetoric, and social-epistemic rhetoric-that he claims occupy distinct positions in relation to ideology ("Rhetoric" 478). Berlin's notion of ideology follows from Goran Therborn's ...
Lester Faigley
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CliffsNotes on Stoker's Dracula
In painting, Expressionistic art is characterized by a sense of imbalance in the pictorial arrangements in order to achieve distortion; the use of oblique angles and sharp curves; a distortion of line and color, where primary colors are generally ...
Samuel J Umland, 2007
7
Understanding Art
Expressionism also refers to a modern art movement, but many earlier works are expressionistic in the broader sense of the term. In The Burial of Count Orgaz ( see Fig. 16-29), El Greco's expressionistic elongation of the heavenly figures ...
Lois Fichner-Rathus, 2012
8
Expressionist Film: New Perspectives
Once Lotte Eisner had identified — if not expressionist features, then an expressionistic "mood" of the film and some expressionist "lighting effects" — the label was extended by other critics to the discovery of "expressionistic gestures,"  ...
Dietrich Scheunemann, 2006
9
Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom
To give a brief example: from a conjunctural perspective, the emphasis on the value of personal voice and individual sincerity in the work of Peter Elbow cannot be reduced simply to a category of expressionistic rhetoric that distinguishes it, ...
Gary A. Olson, Sidney I. Dobrin, 1994
10
Picture Books for Children
Examples of expressionistic illustrations are those created by Ashley Bryan for What a Wonderful World by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele (Jean Karl/ Atheneum, 1995) and Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin, written by Lloyd Moss and illustrated by ...
Patricia J. Cianciolo, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXPRESSIONISTIC»

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Review: In 'Between the World and Me,' Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a …
Mr. Coates's expressionistic book is a sequel of sorts and a bookend to “The Beautiful Struggle,” his evocative 2008 memoir of growing up in ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Intiman season opens with Tennessee Williams rarity
Expressionistic and poetic, loosely based on the Greek legend of Orpheus (a frequent inspiration, recently for the 5th Avenue Theatre musical ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
3
Movies opening July 10
A Poem Is a Naked Person: Late Berkeley filmmaker Les Blank's expressionistic 1974 documentary capturing rock musician Leon Russell at ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
4
Pieces by tragic artist to go under the hammer
“His work is very expressionistic and seems to reflect some of the inner conflicts he was going through. It also represents his Polish traditions ... «Morpeth Herald, Jul 15»
5
'Sunset Edge' review: Teens + abandoned trailer park = trouble
Unfortunately, such expressionistic devices (which also involve random cutaways to an anonymous, elderly woman with flowing white hair) ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Photographer Blair finds inspiration in Itasca bogs
As a matter of fact, many of the images look more like abstract expressionistic paintings of the type you'd find Jackson Pollock or Willem de ... «Mesabi Daily News, Jul 15»
7
Harry Lime Gets a Second Life in the Restored Version of 'The Third …
It's an unforgettable vision, with its zither music, expressionistic camerawork, and Orson Welles as that endearing scoundrel Harry Lime, who ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
8
Henrik Vibskov Opens Largest Solo Exhibit in Asia at Seoul's Daelim …
Similarly, his expressionistic nude photographs take an unexpectedly comic twist when one discovers that some of them are of his 65-year-old ... «WWD, Jul 15»
9
60FT DOLLS 'THE BIG 3' EXPANDED EDITION
... while 'Hair' is delicate and sensuous (written with Elastica's Donna Matthews) and chiming 'The One', rounds off a record whose raw, expressionistic aesthetic ... «Music News, Jul 15»
10
Susan Roth at Everson in Syracuse
... who turned towards more expressionistic and “impure” approaches while absorbing the lessons of their predecessors. Roth can be seen as a ... «ithaca.com, Jul 15»

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