MEANING
Arousing strong feeling, or expressing it in a way that invites an emotional response.
Use it for
evaluating emotionally charged wording; distinguishing emotional appeal from factual support; describing a topic that provokes strong reactions; analyzing how rhetoric shapes an audience’s responseDistinguishes language or topics that arouse feeling from claims supported primarily through factual reasoning. Writing functions: Argumentation / Rhetorical evaluation, Evaluation, Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- emotive language
- an emotive issue
- emotive imagery
On the page
The phrase is emotive, but its emotional force does not establish the scale of the problem.
The article examines how emotive imagery changed public responses to the proposed closure.
Word forms
- Base
- emotive
Usage notes
Adjective. Natural comparison: more emotive, most emotive. Not emotiver or emotivest. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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