gesticulant

[je-stik-yuh-luhnt]

adjective

1. making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations.

   a gesticulant speaker.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gesticulant¹

First recorded in 1875–80; gesticul(ate) + -ant

Example Sentences

A rabbi played by the charismatic Duane Cooper, for example, sometimes thunders with the rich baritone and gesticulant flourishes of a Baptist preacher, and then abruptly starts lilting and shrugging like Billy Crystal.

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For the figure of the ungainly foe would stride across the delicious vision, huge against the waves like Cyclops, and like him gesticulant, but unhappily not so single-eyed that the slippery fair might despise him.

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