evocatively
- adverb
- /ɪˈvoʊkətɪvli/
- A well-known American psychologist, Abraham Maslow (1943, pp. 374-75), evocatively stated the distinction between short-term and long-term needs.
- evocatively titled
- evocatively named
- evocatively describes
Examples
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Here is certainly a case of how "even the most dense of colonial documents can spring leaks," as Elizabeth Edwards (2001:12) puts it so evocatively.
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D.C. has all the material necessary to stand tall and apart from Marvel by actively producing some powerful, evocatively meaningful films that have the weight and heart to withstand the test of time.
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Roger, beautifully and evocatively written as always.
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Social psychologist Michelle Fine and her colleagues have written evocatively of her decade of experience with youth researchers.
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Holly evocatively describes the old key to the Bastille as "so dense with stored meaning."
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How can we evocatively interweave these languages: the digital, poetic, and symbolic languages?
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He's using them evocatively rather than descriptively or in a classificatory way.
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And as historian Thomas Allen demonstrates in this thoroughly researched and evocatively written examination of those Americans who opposed separation from Mother England, there is a lot about our one-sided founding Patriot history that is just nonsense.
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Meanwhile, highly skilled young researchers flocked to Beck's evocatively titled Mood Clinic, a leaky, decrepit set of offices with tattered chairs in the now-defunct Philadelphia General Hospital.
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The author evocatively captured the essence of childhood in her novel, bringing back memories for many readers.
Synonyms
In a way that shows strong feelings
In a way that makes pictures in your mind and feelings very clear
In a way that shows deep pain or longing
In a way that makes you feel moved or very sad
Makes people feel deep sadness or pity
In a way that makes you feel sad or moved
Shows deep feeling and moves people
In a way that shows warm feelings about people or the past
In a way that shows strong feeling
In a moving way that makes people feel sad or touched
In a way that relates to feelings
In a way that creates clear, strong pictures in your mind with words
In a way that makes a strong emotional and lasting impression
In a way that shows a person remembering the past
In a way that makes people feel strong emotion and excitement
Causes people to feel very moved or delighted
To speak or write in a way that shows strong feelings
Antonyms
How Evocative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word evocatively comes from Latin parts e- ('out') and vocare ('to call'), so the root means 'to call out' and is the same root as vocal. That's why when something is done evocatively, it brings strong images and feelings to mind.