ostensive

Examples

• All

• The teacher used an ostensive example to help the students understand the concept better.

• Ian Watt writes that "one of the most characteristic objections to Impressionist painting was that the artist's ostensive subject was obscured by his representation of the atmospheric conditions" (169).

  Academic text (2018)

• The most interesting case of semasiography concerns the ostensive "Old European" script, which would have developed before writing in the Near East.

  Academic text (1995)

• They are not about ostensive realities but about the religious possibilities of being human.

  Academic text (1991)

• Its ostensive purpose is set forth in its preamble: to remove "all causes of complaint, and establish a firm and permanent friendship with them, the Six Nations."

  Academic text (1995)

• The mainstream will lead and observe the other for as long as there is a mainstream, but within this climate, ostensive ethnic minorities need to be represented, and they should make a point of ensuring that they are.

  Academic text (2016)

• The ostensive purpose was to attend a reunion at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he had received a doctorate in agricultural economics many years earlier.

  Academic text (2014)

• But the criterion for this agreement is not just agreement with reference to definitions, e.g., ostensive definitions—but also an agreement in judgments.

  Academic text (2017)

• During the presentation, she made ostensive gestures to illustrate her key points clearly.

• The artist's ostensive style invites viewers to directly engage with the subject matter.

Synonyms

I

illustrative

vsostensive

20 4.6

Showing examples or pictures to make an idea clear

focuses on directly showing by pointing or a single explicit example

D

demonstrative

vsostensive

8 6.0

Showing strong feelings openly

emphasizes literal demonstration rather than emotional openness

S

significative

vsostensive

• Formal

9.7

Showing clearly that something is true or important

is more hands-on, showing by direct pointing or explicit example

Antonyms

V

vague

230 4.6

Not clear or detailed so you are unsure what is meant

A

ambiguous

68 6.3

Not clear because it can have more than one meaning

Compounds

O

ostensive definition

• Specialized

9.9

A way to explain a word by showing examples

How Clear

manifest

• Formal

26 4.2

explicit

142 4.8

ostensive

• Specialized

9.8

demonstrative

8 6.0

indicative

64 4.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology