Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Constituting, containing, relating to, or using exclamation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Using exclamation: as, an exclamatory speaker.
  • Containing or expressing exclamation: as, an exclamatory phrase.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing, expressing, or using exclamation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective resembling an exclamation.
  • adjective Emphatic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective sudden and strong

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Examples

  • On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • Avoid using words, but an occasional one-word exclamatory e.g., Victory! is okay.

    The Elegant Solution Matthew E. May 2007

  • Everything he saw'the weeds, the broken glass, the clumps of bricks'seemed to stand forth with a kind of exclamatory force.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • Thanks to this Photoshop job of a “real-life” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleby binome on Worth1000, I find my usually-indomitable vocabulary reduced to the most painful and trite of exclamatory internet cliches.

    Thanks, Photoshop!: Real-Life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 2010

  • They pile on every Paulson story the O runs and start pumping out shrill, exclamatory, barking comments day and night.

    Strike 2 (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • And the exclamatory change in skin hue could help to alleviate the lack of super-power dazzle.

    Should Will Smith Play Captain America? – Collider.com 2010

  • When he was given a turn a few minutes later, Jimmy White, seen-it-all-before doyen of the green baize, offered a rather less exclamatory: "Yeah, I think it's good."

    Ronnie O'Sullivan crowned prince of the new Power Snooker generation Simon Burnton 2010

  • The complete lack of evidence aside, it is certain that no such exclamatory tone would have been used if the pilot were Lebanese.

    Patrick Galey: Flight ET409 Exposes Lebanon's Racist Underbelly 2010

  • Delta music's a lot closer to field hollers and other things, which are very exclamatory, and preacher styles too are, you know, different from region to region.

    New Collection Explores 'Classic Appalachian Blues' 2010

  • The complete lack of evidence aside, it is certain that no such exclamatory tone would have been used if the pilot were Lebanese.

    Flight ET409 Exposes Lebanon's Racist Underbelly 2010

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