Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing exclamation; exclamatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exclamatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the form of an
exclamation ;exclamatory .
Etymologies
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Compare French exclamatif.
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Examples
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After my short stay in Taiwan, I see that as more necessary than multiplying the romanizations everyone I met with at least an elementary education mastered the zhuyin kana, but was unable to use properly one single existing romanization system; in the papers or personal messages, final exclamative particles are written directly in zhuyin fuhao, and the fact that many young people now exchange emails entirely written with that system prompted a new debate on alphabetization and the disappearance of hanzi.
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"wow, this soup is really salty!", but the anarthrous exclamative "salty soup!" doesn't seem to me to work.
Language Log Mark Liberman 2010
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