What does emotive mean?

Definitions for emotive
ɪˈmoʊ tɪvemo·tive

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word emotive.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. affectional, affective, emotiveadjective

    characterized by emotion

Wiktionary

  1. emotiveadjective

    of, or relating to emotion

  2. emotiveadjective

    appealing to one's emotions

Webster Dictionary

  1. Emotiveadjective

    attended by, or having the character of, emotion

Freebase

  1. eMOTIVe

    eMOTIVe is the third and latest album by American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle. It was released on November 1, 2004, to coincide with the US presidential election.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of emotive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of emotive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of emotive in a Sentence

  1. Middle East:

    It's a very strong public issue and it's quite emotive. As public diplomacy goes it's a very strong gesture.

  2. Alamos CEO John McCluskey:

    It is a very cynical thing to say, but I believe that this whole attack is essentially just an environmental cloak that is being put over what is really a deep political agenda, what I've never experienced in the past is where there has been very deliberate misinformation about this project that is being published in an effort to get very rapidly a very emotive social media response.

  3. Michael Ruck:

    Whistleblowing can be an emotive issue but if firms have an appropriate regime in place it can enable the firm to identify issues and remedy them before they become a significant regulatory or legal failing.

  4. Arthur Koestler:

    When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

  5. Mick Fleetwood:

    I think it's all personal choice. Hey, if you go straight to the source and are someone like Bob Dylan or John Lennon who made very specific choices about what they chose to do -- that had direct political meaning, that's something that that we haven't touched on. We're a band that mostly, if not entirely, relates to human relations and emotive content that means a damn, and we're very comfortable.

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