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EVOCATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evocative mean?
• EVOCATIVE (adjective)
The adjective EVOCATIVE has 1 sense:
1. serving to bring to mind
Familiarity information: EVOCATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Serving to bring to mind
Synonyms:
evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant
Context example:
a campaign redolent of machine politics
Similar:
aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)
Derivation:
evoke (call to mind)
evoke (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))
Context examples
The team found that previous researchers depended on the most evocative written accounts, applying them to other places in the Mediterranean world while ignoring hundreds of contemporary texts that do not mention plague.
(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)
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