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evocative

adjective

evoc·​a·​tive i-ˈvä-kə-tiv How to pronounce evocative (audio)
: evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response
settings … so evocative that they bring tears to the eyes Eric Malpass
evocatively adverb
evocativeness noun

Example Sentences

He wrote a powerful and evocative biography. the Italian-American restaurant is decorated in a manner evocative of the charming outdoor cafés in Italy
Recent Examples on the Web Wanna switches to a black backdrop for the piece that’s most evocative of interstellar vistas, but all the paintings feature scattered pigment grains that dot the seemingly vast depths like clouds of distant stars. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022 And music supervisor Iain Cooke excels, summoning ever-evocative soundtrack cues that feel instinctively right to these characters in this time and place. Mike Mccahill, Variety, 30 Aug. 2022 The stock is up 440% so far this month in a rally that evocative of eye-watering gains in shares of GameStop and AMC Entertainment early last year that hurt hedge funds that had bet against the stock. Reuters, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022 Ben Roters delivers the lyrics with a languid flair, that builds to a euphoric crescendo at the chorus evocative of the blissful — and deeply intimate — moments shared with a lover. Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2022 Whether evocative of delight, aversion or simple indifference, tapping into emotion plays a fundamental role to design. Goran Paun, Forbes, 28 June 2022 In December 2020, Harish Salem Chandramowli, a 30-year-old software engineer and first-time buyer, closed on a one-bedroom apartment at Hero, a 109-unit condo tower that has an undulating white facade more evocative of Miami Beach than Queens. New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022 More frequently, though, Phelps and Sewitsky aim for glum, often evocative misery. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022 The film was also accompanied by David Shire’s matchlessly evocative twelve-tone-technique score, doubtless the only occasion when the musical mechanics of Arnold Schoenberg were called on to dramatize the movement of the I.R.T. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1657, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of evocative was in 1657

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