how to pronounce expressive

/ɪkˈspɹɛs.ɪv/

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expressive is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… planning is far more expressive than …”

meanings of expressive

noun:

Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

adjective:

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

expressive frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word expressive occurs in english on average 5.3 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 expressive 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 expressive can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;