demonstrative

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But you are self-demonstrative, and cannot control your feelings I do not quite understand you What did it all matter?

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  1. adjective Serving to manifest or prove.
  2. adjective Involving or characterized by demonstration.
  3. adjective Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion: an affectionate and demonstrative family.
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  • He was not demonstrative, and was often misunderstood. —  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Ad spending declines have become more demonstrative -- occurring only for the third time since the end of World War II, because advertising and marketing won't ever be the same again. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The blue dog was demonstrative, the red dog was lovey, but laid back. —  Listics
  • Red Murdo was urgently demonstrative, and my sergeant, as he afterwards told me, kept an eye on him lest he should be tempted to intervene. —  The Black Colonel
  • Even Sarah was moved to be demonstrative, and, taking her mother's hand, fondled it What is it, mother? —  Sarah's School Friend
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  1. from Middle English demonstratif, from French démonstratif = Provencal demostratiu = Spanish demostrativo = Portuguese demonstrativo = Italian dimostrativo, from Latin demonstrativus, from demonstrare, point out: see demonstrate.
 

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/dəˈmɑnstrətɪv/
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