gestural

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.

Similar
signsignedsign-languagecommunicativecommunicatorynonverbal
OriginProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English gesture →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.

    One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.

    2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic
  2. artRelating to gesturalism.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveused of the language of the deaf

Similar
signsignedsign-languagecommunicativecommunicatory

adjectivebeing other than verbal communication

Similar
nonverbalcommunicativecommunicatory
Also see
signsigned

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishgesture
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishgestural

From gesture + -al.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Catalan gestual
  • gestualusing gestures
French gestuel
  • gestuelusing gestures
German gestisch
  • gestischusing gestures
Spanish gestual
  • gestualusing gestures

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

stegural
Cite this entry
APA

gestural. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gestural

MLA

“gestural.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gestural. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gestural,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gestural.

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