EXPRESSIVE STYLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expressive style mean? 

• EXPRESSIVE STYLE (noun)
  The noun EXPRESSIVE STYLE has 1 sense:

1. a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

  Familiarity information: EXPRESSIVE STYLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPRESSIVE STYLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

expressive style; style

Context example:

all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper

Hypernyms ("expressive style" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expressive style"):

delivery; manner of speaking; speech (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)

verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)

vein (a distinctive style or manner)

turn of expression; turn of phrase (a distinctive spoken or written expression)

terseness (a neatly short and concise expressive style)

sesquipedality (using long words)

self-expression (the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities))

coarseness; saltiness (language or humor that is down-to-earth)

rhetoric (using language effectively to please or persuade)

prose (matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression)

pathos (a style that has the power to evoke feelings)

officialese (the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure)

genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)

allegory (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)

legalese (a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law)

journalese (the style in which newspapers are written)

jargon (specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject)

headlinese (using the abbreviated style of headline writers)

grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric (high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation)

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

flatness (a want of animation or brilliance)

euphuism (any artificially elegant style of language)

eloquence; fluency; smoothness (powerful and effective language)

device (something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect)

black humor; black humour (the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect)

bathos (triteness or triviality of style)

analysis (the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., 'the father of the bride' instead of 'the bride's father')