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How to pronounce demonstrative in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms illustrative
Derivation demonstrate
Type Words
Synonyms demonstrative pronoun
Type of pronoun
Type Words
Derivation demonstrativeness


an affectionate and demonstrative family.

Examples of demonstrative

demonstrative
Demonstrative evidence is evidence in the form of a representation of an object.
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Stage-door Janies have always been more demonstrative than stage-door Johnnies.
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Tebow has no regrets about giving voice to or being demonstrative in his faith.
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The definite article has a more demonstrative feel than the English equivalent.
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He had observed Marissa at school where, he says, she was much less demonstrative.
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Greivis Vasquez is the group's demonstrative leader and top all-around talent.
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In his wily way, President Wahid knows full well the power of a demonstrative act.
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The citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire are not a particularly demonstrative bunch.
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This new demonstrative underlies the English determines this, these and those.
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More examples
  • Demonstrative pronoun: a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  • Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family"
  • Serving to demonstrate
  • (demonstrativeness) tending to express your feelings freely
  • Demonstratives are deictic words (they depend on an external frame of reference) that indicate which entities a speaker refers to and distinguishes those entities from others. ...
  • This is a term used to refer to words like this/that, these/those and here/there which indicate a location relatively nearer to or further from the speaker (e.g. this book means 'the book relatively close to me', and that book means 'the book somewhat further away from me').
  • A pronoun or adjective which expresses proximity to or remoteness from the speaker (eg Spanish este, ese, aquel).
  • This, that, these, those