evocative
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- evocatively adverb
- evocativeness noun
- nonevocative adjective
- unevocative adjective
Etymology
Origin of evocative
1650–60; < Latin ēvocātīvus, equivalent to ēvocāt ( us ) ( evoke, -ate 1 ) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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Mail-order catalogs such as the midcentury Sears, Roebuck Christmas edition overflowed with evocative shades—winterberry, burnished beige, rico green—meant to conjure a feeling as much as a hue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Mr. Soto makes evocative use of pop songs and a wandering clarinet motif, and with cinematographer Juan Sarmiento G. fashions a rough-and-tumble aesthetic well-suited to its chaotic central character.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Where her vision clears, she’s in a hall lit by candlelight and crystal chandeliers draped in pearls, dressed in an iridescent gown and jewels evocative of the decade’s New Romantic style.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
The songs on Black British Music are vivid and evocative, finding light in the darkness but never quite shaking off an undercurrent of sadness.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
My scent must be as evocative to them as theirs is to me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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