exhortative

[ ig-zawr-tuh-tiv ]

adjective

1. serving or intended to exhort.
2. pertaining to exhortation.

Other Words From

• ex·horta·tive·ly adverb
• nonex·horta·tive adjective
• nonex·horta·tory adjective
• unex·horta·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exhortative¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin exhortātīvus, equivalent to exhortāt ( us ) (past participle of exhortārī to exhort ) + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

On Thursday morning, Trump defended his exhortative conversations with Raffensperger and repeated his Big Lie that the election was a hoax.

From Salon

Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan.

From New York Times

In it, the exhortative words of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr. have been converted into a musical score, recordings of which sound through the gallery.

From New York Times

Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way.

From New York Times

Coates’s writing on race and politics combines reportage, deep dives into history and the sort of exhortative truth-telling that merits the heady adjective “prophetic.”

From New York Times