exclamatory

Examples

• All

• The child's exclamatory shout of joy filled the entire playground.

• The title of the article echoed Hurrell's ambivalence, affirming that any girl could look like Garbo, and then qualifying the statement with an exclamatory "Maybe!"

  Academic text (2017)

• But these exclamatory expressions have no more meaning than nowadays saying "Oh, my God!"

  Academic text (2018)

• The house has a kind of exclamatory stillness.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Thode's eloquence, for all its exclamatory punctuation, fell on deaf ears.

  Academic text (1992)

• They learned four kinds of sentences: declarative, imperative, exclamatory, and interrogative.

  Academic text (2007)

• He repeats that exclamatory "Wow!" after he realizes more definitely his connection to the wolf (line 182).

  Academic text (2017)

• When she won the award, her exclamatory reaction surprised everyone in the audience.

Synonyms

E

emphatic

vsexclamatory

23 5.2

It shows strong feeling and makes a point clearly

focuses on sudden strong feeling and brief outburst rather than mere emphasis

V

vehement

vsexclamatory

• Formal

11 7.7

Showing very strong feeling that is hard to ignore

expresses suddenness and brief outburst more than sustained force

E

emotive

vsexclamatory

10 6.0

Causes strong feelings, often sadness or joy

is sudden and often shown with a strong punctuation mark rather than just emotion

E

ejaculatory

vsexclamatory

8.9

Saying something suddenly as a short exclamation or quick prayer

focuses on sudden strong feeling often shown with a strong punctuation mark

How Emphatic

vehement

• Formal

11 7.7

vociferous

• Formal

7 7.8

exclamatory

• Specialized

1 6.0

expressive

41 3.4

calm

735 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology