exhibitive

[ ig-zib-i-tiv ]

adjective

1. serving for exhibition; tending to exhibit.

exhibitive

/ ɪɡˈzɪbɪtɪv /

adjective

1. usually postpositiveand foll byof illustrative or demonstrative

   a masterpiece exhibitive of his talent

Derived Forms

• exˈhibitively, adverb

Other Words From

• ex·hibi·tive·ly adverb
• nonex·hibi·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exhibitive¹

From the New Latin word exhibitīvus, dating back to 1590–1600. See exhibit, -ive

Example Sentences

What connects these and many others featured in Barret’s film, besides their meager means and creative contribution to a city that doesn’t always know what to do about their exhibitive brashness, is the support they get from local, internationally celebrated sculptor Freddy Tsimba, whose serene appearances across “System K” make for a culturally authoritative through line of sorts as we meet the artists and watch them do their thing, come hell or high water.

From Los Angeles Times

Upon reading about the Baller Yoga mat, Jackson, the yoga teacher, responded by reading out a quote by B K S Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar yoga: “When yoga is only outward-facing, exhibitive, and self-gratifying, it is not yoga at all.”

From The Guardian

For the sacraments are called by divines commemorative, representative and exhibitive signs; and such signs are also the ceremonies we have spoken of, in the opinion of Formalists.

From Project Gutenberg

Very apt is she to say that the other woman is too "free and easy", too liberal of her favors, too expansive of her sympathy, too exhibitive of her charms.—Ahem!

From Project Gutenberg

They are diffusive, observant, often apparently indifferent, sometimes positively EXHIBITIVE.

From Project Gutenberg