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- Dictionaryevocative/ɪˈvɒkətɪv/
adjective
- 1. bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind: "powerfully evocative lyrics"
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The meaning of EVOCATIVE is evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response. How to use evocative in a sentence.
making you remember or imagine something pleasant: evocative music Her films are always set in beautiful locations and accompanied by evocative music. evocative of a sound evocative of the sea. Synonyms. redolent literary. reminiscent of someone/something formal. resonant. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Use the adjective evocative when you want to describe something that reminds you of something else. If your mom baked a lot when you were a kid, the smell of cookies in the oven is probably evocative of your childhood.
Evocative definition: tending to evoke. See examples of EVOCATIVE used in a sentence.
Definition of evocative adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people. [formal] Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life. [ + of] ...the evocative power of cinema.
evocative. adjective. Tending to bring a memory, mood, or image, for example, subtly or indirectly to mind: allusive, connotative, impressionistic, reminiscent, suggestive. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people.
making you remember or imagine something that is pleasant: evocative music. The sound is evocative of the sea. (Definition of evocative from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of evocative. in Chinese (Traditional) 引起（愉快）回憶的, 產生（美好）聯想的, 喚起（美好）感情的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified)
If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people.
