emotive

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ɪˈmoʊtɪv/ UK /ɪˈməʊtɪv/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
arousing or expressing strong feeling

Immigration is an emotive subject that divides opinion.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · arousing or expressing... emotional moving stirring poignant affecting evocative

Opposites

unemotionaldispassionate unfeeling impassive

Word family

Derived forms emotivelyemotivenessemotivity

Related forms emotionemoteemotional

Etymology

From Latin emot-, past-participial stem of emovere ('to move out, stir up'), from e- ('out') + movere ('to move'), + the adjectival suffix -ive.

emovere Latin movere Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# emotive

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ɪˈmoʊtɪv/
**IPA (UK):** /ɪˈməʊtɪv/

## Meanings
1. arousing or expressing strong feeling

## Examples
- Immigration is an emotive subject that divides opinion.

## Synonyms
- emotional
- moving
- stirring
- poignant
- affecting
- evocative

## Antonyms
- unemotional
- dispassionate
- unfeeling
- impassive

## Derived Forms
- emotively
- emotiveness
- emotivity

## Related Forms
- emotion
- emote
- emotional

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: emovere
- Root: movere

## Etymology
From Latin emot-, past-participial stem of emovere ('to move out, stir up'), from e- ('out') + movere ('to move'), + the adjectival suffix -ive.

## AI Etymology
Emotive comes from Latin emot-, past-participial stem of emovere ('to move out, stir up'), from e- ('out') + movere ('to move'), + the adjectival suffix -ive. Morphologically, the form is compositional: e- marks part of the visible structure, while the remaining element supplies the lexical base. In present use, it is used as an adjective meaning "arousing or expressing strong feeling", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes derivatives such as emotively, emotiveness, and emotivity and related forms such as emotion, emote, and emotional, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Latin emovere and Latin movere, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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