evocative

3 definitions found

evocative - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Evocative \E*vo"ca*tive\, a.
     Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Evocative power over all that is eloquent and
           expressive in the better soul of man.    --W. Pater.
     [1913 Webster]

evocative - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  evocative
      adj 1: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on
             this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign
             redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative,
             redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]

evocative - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "evocative":
     arousing, causing, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative,
     exacting, exactive, extortionary, extortionate, extortive,
     extractive, in retrospect, inducing, meaningful, memoried, mindful,
     mnemonic, pregnant, producing, redolent, remindful, reminiscent,
     retentive, retrospective, stimulating, stirring, suggestive,
     uprooting, weighty