Meanings
comparative more expressively · superlative most expressively
- In an expressive manner.
You can play the exercises pretty well on piano, fair enough, but can you play the movement expressively?
3 more examples
"I apprehend that my French is not equal to your letter, Monsieur," said Elizabeth, glancing her eye expressively at her companion; "will you favour us with its substance in English?"
1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLCA low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in[…]
1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLCThere was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of “jamborees”
1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwith expression; in an expressive manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan expressivament
- expressivamentin expressive manner
Czech expresivně
- expresivněin expressive manner
Finnish ekspressiivisesti
- ekspressiivisestiin expressive manner
Italian espressivamente
- espressivamentein expressive manner
Portuguese expressivamente
- expressivamentein expressive manner
Russian вырази́тельно, экспресси́вно
- вырази́тельно (vyrazítelʹno)in expressive manner
- экспресси́вно (ekspressívno)in expressive manner
Spanish expresivamente
- expresivamentein expressive manner
Cite this entry
expressively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expressively
“expressively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expressively. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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