expressive style
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
Types & categories
- communication
- allegory
- analysis
- bathos
- black humor
- device
- fluency
- euphuism
- flatness
- formulation
- ornateness
- headlinese
- jargon
- journalese
- legalese
- manner of speaking
- music genre
- officialese
- pathos
- prose
- rhetoric
- coarseness
- self-expression
- sesquipedality
- terseness
- turn of phrase
- vein
- verboseness
- writing style
- poetry
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hairdresser |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stylist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stylize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stylistic |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | artistic creation |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | language |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | communication |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | allegory |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | analysis |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bathos |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | black humor |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | device |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fluency |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | euphuism |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flatness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | formulation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ornateness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | headlinese |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jargon |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | journalese |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | legalese |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | manner of speaking |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | music genre |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | officialese |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pathos |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rhetoric |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | coarseness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | self-expression |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sesquipedality |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | terseness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | turn of phrase |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vein |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | verboseness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | writing style |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | poetry |