Meanings
adjectiveexpostulative (comparative more expostulative, superlative most expostulative)
comparative more expostulative · superlative most expostulative
- Synonym of expostulatory.
Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best
1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 262Synonyms: expostulatory
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adjectiveSynonym of expostulatory.
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expostulative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expostulative
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