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- Dictionaryevocative/ɪˈvɒkətɪv/
adjective
- 1. bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind: "powerfully evocative lyrics"
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making you remember or imagine something pleasant: evocative music Her films are always set in beautiful locations and accompanied by evocative music. evocative of a sound evocative of the sea. Synonyms. redolent literary. reminiscent of someone/something formal. resonant. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
The meaning of EVOCATIVE is evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response. How to use evocative in a sentence.
EVOCATIVE meaning: 1. making you remember or imagine something pleasant: 2. making you remember or imagine something…. Learn more.
Use the adjective evocative when you want to describe something that reminds you of something else. If your mom baked a lot when you were a kid, the smell of cookies in the oven is probably evocative of your childhood.
Evocative definition: tending to evoke. See examples of EVOCATIVE used in a sentence.
If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people. [formal] Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life. [ + of] ...the evocative power of cinema.
Definition of evocative adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
