evocative
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6.7
- adjective
- /ɪˈvɑːkətɪv/
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evocador
- Food constitutes one of the most available and evocative media through which to express such issues.
- powerfully evocative
- evocative images
- highly evocative
Blonde Blue is very evocative of those Ralph Lauren seaside.
- Blonde Blue is very evocative of those Ralph Lauren seaside.
- But a child is an easy and evocative target.
- This was a good science fictional idea based on solid science but evocative of interesting stories.
- You miss this thing you were embedded in that was so evocative of an earlier time of your life.
- So for many people, this strange day when so-called love is in the air can be a very, very evocative triggering time.
- They also write about poems, and the sentences of their essays read like poems, always evocative, layered, self reflecting, probing.
- It's got a beautiful sort of Irish kind of theme to it, and it's evocative and sad and it it, it, it's.
- And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.
- Meryl Streep is Sophie and it's very, very evocative.
- So instead use a term words other than walks that are more evocative.
Examples
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They are in fact the most diverse, evocative, poetic aspect of nature.
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The photographs were evocative enough to make me remember my childhood.
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This is very evocative language here, right?
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Wow, it's really... evocative, you know?
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And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.
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You miss this thing you were embedded in that was so evocative of an earlier time of your life.
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Sometimes objects can be more evocative than memories.
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The emphasis of the project is predominantly on the evocative power of words.
Academic text (2017) -
The earlier work is ghosting around in the background, which I find a particularly evocative idea.
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In its very modernity and visual drama, the square is evocative of the planned capital city itself.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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3.3
Making strong, clear images or feelings in the mind
63
5.7
Reminds you of a person, time, or thing from the past
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6.0
Leaving a strong or disturbing feeling you cannot forget
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6.5
Making you remember a strong feeling or image
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8.3
Causing you to remember something strongly
Causing you to think of something from the past
Antonyms
How Evocative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word evocative comes from the Latin root evocare, made of e- meaning 'out' and vocare meaning 'to call', like the same root in vocal and the word 'voice'. So, something evocative 'calls out' memories or feelings and brings them to mind.