Demonstrative

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  • adjective. Serving to manifest or prove.
  • adjective. Involving or characterized by demonstration.
  • adjective. Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion.
  • adjective. Specifying or singling out the person or thing referred to.
  • noun. A demonstrative pronoun or adjective.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exhibiting or indicating with clearness: as, a demonstrative figure in painting.
  • In rhetoric, expressing or explaining with clearness, force, and beauty.
  • Characterized by or given to the strong exhibition of any feeling or quality; energetically expressive: as, a demonstrative manner; a demonstrative person.
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of proof; having the power of proving or demonstrating; indubitably conclusive: as, a demonstrative argument; demonstrative reasoning.
  • noun. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • adjective. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
  • adjective. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment.
  • adjective. Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
  • adjective. a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
  • adjective. given to open displays of emotion
  • adjective. that specifies the thing or person referred to
  • noun. A demonstrative adjective.
  • noun. A demonstrative pronoun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. serving to demonstrate
  • adjective. given to or marked by the open expression of emotion
  • noun. a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  • Word Usage
    "Certainty depends so wholly on this intuition, that, in the next degree of knowledge which I call demonstrative, this intuition is necessary in all the connexions of the intermediate ideas, without which we cannot attain knowledge and certainty."
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