Definition of "emotive" []

• Of or relating to emotion: the emotive aspect of symbols. (adjective)
• Characterized by, expressing, or exciting emotion: an emotive trial lawyer; the emotive issue of gun control. (adjective)

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• "The idea of things being more emotive is very interesting."
• "The proponents of euthanasia always talk in emotive terms about people dying in great distress."
• "Since Orwell, so far as we know, had not been in this condition, the comparison, while perhaps effectively emotive, is logically meaningless."