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Meaning of EVOCATIVE

Pronunciation:  i'vâkutiv

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
 
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 Synonyms: aware, mindful, redolent, redolent of(p), remindful, reminiscent, reminiscent of(p)
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\E*vo"ca*tive\, a.
Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.
      Evocative power over all that is eloquent and
      expressive in the better soul of man.    --W. Pater.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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