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exclamatory

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

adjective

  1. using, containing, or expressing exclamation:

    an exclamatory sentence.

  2. pertaining to exclamation.


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Other Words From

  • ex·clama·tori·ly adverb
  • nonex·clama·tory adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of exclamatory1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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