evocative English

Meaning evocative meaning

What does evocative mean?

evocative

— adjective (= redolent) serving to bring to mind cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note — Wilder Hobson a campaign redolent of machine politics

Synonyms evocative synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as evocative?

evocative English » English

reminiscent

redolent

suggestive

resonant

remindful

emotive

thought-provoking

reminiscential

recollective

moving

indicative

hinting

Topics evocative topics

What do people use evocative to talk about?

Language and thought Think Remember

Remind

• What words refer to reminding someone of a person or something that happened in the past?
  remind be a reminder bring back memories take someone back drag up rake up evoke evocative make someone think of

Examples evocative examples

How do I use evocative in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The careful use of evocative imagery is an important part of building a successful advertising campaign.

Movie subtitles

You're as evocative as a full-page ad.

I only wish I could describe it with the incomparable panache, the consummate verve, the enthralling cadences, the delicate gestures, the evocative expressions of America's greatest tragic actress, Harriet Belinda. Miss Linda Arden.

That's evocative!

Here is an example of how emotionally evocative English can be.

And vaguely evocative of some deep truth that always just keeps slipping away.

The tactility of its surface is evocative of the neo-primitive period in Tyrinean blade carving.

It was so romantic. So evocative.

Medical terms are less evocative.

So? The smell is so evocative.

That's an evocative word these days.

Very evocative of old-time Stars Hollow.

It's very evocative.

This is very evocative.

Oh, evocative.

It's so sensual and evocative.

I only wish I could describe it with the incomparable panache, the consummate verve, the enthralling cadences, the delicate gestures, the evocative expressions of America's greatest tragic actress, Harriet Belinda.

Evocative.

Highly evocative, Miss Sullivan.

The lady will introduce, in an evocative way, admiral Aulenti.

That's very evocative.

Well, it's supposed to be metaphorical and evocative.

Um, this is hard, because they're both so evocative.

It's really evocative, you know?

Evocative, huh?

If the cosmos is closed there's a strange, haunting, evocative possibility one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion.

There's nothing quite so evocative as one's sense of smell, is there?

So evocative.

I love it, it's so evocative.

The smell is so evocative.

The suit's a gold-titanium alloy, but it's kind of evocative, the imagery, anyway.

It's the most evocative?

Sarah, you look evocative.

But they are evocative.

And yet, as Judge Sobel might say, it is evocative.

News and current affairs

Fans don not just their nations' flags, but also fantastic costumes evocative of their home countries' colors.

Evocative historical dates are being used or abused in a similar way on the other edge of the European continent, to conjure up images of enemies that resonate in contemporary political debates.