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evocative

[ih-vok-uh-tiv, ih-voh-kuh-]

adjective

  1. tending to evoke.

    The perfume was evocative of spring.



evocative

/ ɪˈɒəɪ /

adjective

  1. tending or serving to evoke

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Other Word Forms

  • evocatively adverb
  • evocativeness noun
  • nonevocative adjective
  • unevocative adjective
  • ˈdzپ adverb
  • ˈdzپԱ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of evocative1

1650–60; < Latin ŧdzīܲ, equivalent to ŧdz ( us ) ( evoke, -ate 1 ) + -īܲ -ive
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"There's something truly evocative about it, I hear jazz music when I look at it. It's impossibly chic."

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The stories that emerge about our three key players are evocative, provocative and absurd — a contrast to looming darkness.

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This familiar ecological pattern — bigger creatures eating smaller creature — has internalized the production of this evocative and volatile gas.

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Through evocative visual flourishes that reflect a connection to Indigenous traditions, their household dynamic is observed with curiosity and compassion, yet always probing at the more peculiar ideologies at play in their interpersonal relationships.

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A more accurate summary of “Andor” and its impact is to call it hauntingly evocative of this American era, particularly in the way it develops its antagonists.

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