demonstrative

From Middle French démonstratif

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɒnstɹətɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɑnstɹətɪv/, /dəˈmɑnstɹətɪv/

demonstrative (comparative more demonstrative, superlative most demonstrative)

1. that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
   • Hooker

     an argument necessary and demonstrative

2. given to open displays of emotion
   • Blair

     demonstrative eloquence

   • 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter III:

     He had rather a contempt for demonstrative people, arising from his medical insight into the consequences to health of uncontrolled feeling.

3. (grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to

• demonstrative adjective
• demonstrative pronoun

demonstrative (plural demonstratives)

1. (grammar) A demonstrative word
   1. A demonstrative adjective.
   2. A demonstrative pronoun.

demonstrative

1. inflected form of demonstrativ

dēmonstrātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of dēmonstrātīvus

• demonstrative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• demonstrative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette