how to pronounce emotive

/ɪˈməʊ.tɪv/

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emotive is pronounced in three syllables

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ɪməʊtɪv

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An example use of emotive in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Johnson in the back emotive language I …”

meanings of emotive

adjective:

  1. Expressing an emotion.
  2. Of or relating to emotion.
  3. Appealing to the emotions.

noun:

  1. A word or construct that expresses an emotion.

emotive frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word emotive occurs in english on average 3.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics emotive can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that emotive can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

words that rhyme with emotive

locomotivevotivemotiveautomotive

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