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Evocative   Listen
adjective
Evocative  adj.  Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. "Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Evocative" Quotes from Famous Books



... address of the murderer. But that detail, which the morning papers omitted, extras shortly supplied. Meanwhile in the minds of imaginative New Yorkers, visions of the infernal feminine surged. The murdered man's name was evocative. ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... egoism, or any small, triumphant feeling. Yet it was not her beauty which fascinated her eyes, but an imaginative look in them and in the whole face. For the first time she fully realised why she had a curious, an evocative, influence on certain people, why she called the hidden children of the secret places of their souls, why those children heard, and stretched out their hands, and lifted their eyes ...
— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens

... an extreme example of the hackish habit of coining elaborate and evocative terms for lossage. Here we see a quite self-conscious parody of mainstream expletives that has become a running gag in part of the hacker culture; it illustrates the hackish tendency to turn any situation, even one of extreme frustration, into an intellectual ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0



Words linked to "Evocative" :   mindful, remindful, resonant



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