evocative
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- evocatively adverb
- evocativeness noun
- nonevocative adjective
- unevocative adjective
Etymology
Origin of evocative
1650–60; < Latin ēvocātīvus, equivalent to ēvocāt ( us ) ( evoke, -ate 1 ) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.
Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon
“We are, all of us, breathless, up against a rock,” Fennell continues, referencing a particularly evocative scene she imagined for her film.
From Los Angeles Times
Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”
A close look at the evocative cover reveals a sneak preview.
From Los Angeles Times
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