Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎭 With personal style 🧐 By explaining meaning
interpretatively

interpretatively

1 7.8
In a way that shows a performer’s personal feeling about the work
  • adverb
  • /ɪnˈtɜrprɪtɪvli/
: interpretativamente
  • The violinist performed the piece interpretatively, highlighting her own understanding of the music.

Examples

  • She danced interpretatively, making the choreography feel unique and personal.

  • She sang interpretatively, adding her unique style to the piece.

  • The actor delivered his lines interpretatively, adding subtle emotions to each scene.

  • The dancer performed interpretatively to convey deep emotions.

  • The actor delivered his lines interpretatively, adding subtle emotions to each scene.

  • The violinist performed the piece interpretatively, highlighting her own understanding of the music.

  • She danced interpretatively, making the choreography feel unique and personal.

Synonyms

interpretively
vsinterpretatively
  • US
1 7.0

In a way that explains meaning using personal ideas

focuses on a performer's personal expression in musical or dramatic performance
expressionistically
vsinterpretatively
  • Specialized
1 9.6

In a way that uses bold color and shape to show strong emotion

focuses on individual live performance expression, not an art movement style
dramaturgically
vsinterpretatively
  • Specialized
1 9.5

In a way that looks at how people make a play

is about a performer's expressive delivery rather than compositional technique

Surface Forms

interpretatively positive

Morphology

interpretatively = interpretative (transparent) = interpret + ative + ly

Forming an adverb with '-ly' from an adjective is straightforward and preserves the adjective's meaning.

Etymology

Interpretatively comes from interpret, which can also mean 'put meaning into' a text or role. So when someone acts or plays music interpretatively, they perform with their own feeling and personal view.