exclamatory

[ ik-sklam-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. using, containing, or expressing exclamation:

   an exclamatory sentence.

2. pertaining to exclamation.

Other Words From

• ex·clama·tori·ly adverb
• nonex·clama·tory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exclamatory¹

1585–95; < Latin exclāmāt ( us ) called out ( exclamation ) + -ory ¹

Example Sentences

His features are friendly and exaggerated—the gap between his two front teeth, the exclamatory eyebrows.

From The Daily Beast

The first of these divisions begins, and the last ends, with an exclamatory ascription of thanks to God.

From Project Gutenberg

The mark of exclamation is placed after sentences which, though interrogatory in form, are really exclamatory.

From Project Gutenberg

A full stop is placed at the end of every sentence that is neither exclamatory nor interrogative.

From Project Gutenberg

His talk had been great, and we had confined ourselves to little exclamatory appreciations and gazes of rapt adoration!

From Project Gutenberg

She had an abrupt, exclamatory way of speaking that forced back all that Germinie would have liked to confide to her.

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