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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Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
There’s a bit of “Jaws” in “Beast of War,” which is also evocative of Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat” while being something of a watered-down version of both.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 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
Daniel Lopatin discusses the process of composing his synthesized score for Josh Safdies’s ‘Marty Supreme,’ both evocative of ’80s nostalgia and something new.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
I did think, however, that the symbolism of the rat and squirrel or rat-squirrel or squirrel-rat was evocative and rather excellent.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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