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# expressive

«expressive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Showing feelings or thoughts clearly, especially in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Showing feelings or thoughts clearly, especially in the face, the eyes or the voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expressive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, eyes and faces that show love, sadness or joy without any words

### examples

- She had expressive eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expressive/#x1)
- His face was earnest and expressive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expressive/#x2)
- The actor's voice was very expressive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expressive/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expressive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expressive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.