Thesaurus: demonstrative

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1. a. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
2. a. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
3. a. Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
4. n. A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
5. adj. given to or marked by the open expression of emotion
6. adj. serving to demonstrate
7. n. a pronoun that points out an intended referent
8. 1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker. 2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative. 3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair. Demonstrative pronoun (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers. A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
9. A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" aredemonstratives.
10. j:100 a. given to or marked by the open expression of emotion s. serving to demonstrate