demonstrative.

1. Openly expressive of affection or emotion.

2. Intended to exhibit or establish something through demonstration.

3. Identifying a particular referent through a word such as this, that, these, or those.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• demonstrative affection
• demonstrative manner

On the page

He was demonstrative in private but restrained in public.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Comparative more demonstrative; superlative most demonstrative when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evidence, inference, qualification. Commonness: moderately common.