- 1煽情的；能激起強烈情緒的。台灣作文／媒體課常說「情緒性用語」；跟形容人的「情緒化」不一樣。
When we call something emotive, we are not saying a person is full of feelings. We are saying a word, a picture, a speech, or a topic pushes strong feelings up in the people who meet it. Newspapers, teachers, and politicians talk about emotive language: words chosen to make you angry, sad, proud, or scared, not only to hand you facts. An emotive issue is a subject — animal testing, immigration, a famous court case — where feelings run high and calm talk is hard. The word is a little formal. You meet it in essays, media class, and more than in chat. Though actually, some native speakers mix it with emotional. A person feels emotional; a message or a topic is emotive.
組成emotion + -ive (tending to cause). Emotion itself is from Latin e-/ex- “out” + movere “to move”: feelings that move you.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
emotiveadj/ɪˈməʊtɪv/
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Of or relating to emotion.
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Appealing to the emotions.
- He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsExpressing an emotion.
emotivenoun/ɪˈməʊtɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word or construct that expresses an emotion.
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