gesticulating [je-stik-yuh-leyt] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
gesture/gesticulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make signs, motions to communicate
Synonyms: act out, flag, indicate, mime, pantomime, signal, signalize, use one's hands, use sign language, wave
Antonyms: speak
Main Entry: beckon
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: call, signal, or lure
Synonyms: allure, ask, attract, bid, coax, command, demand, draw, entice, gesticulate, gesture, invite, motion, nod, pull, sign, summon, tempt, wave
Main Entry: motion
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gesture, direct
Synonyms: beckon, flag, gesticulate, guide, invite, move, nod, sign, signal, signalize, wave
Antonyms: be still
Example Sentences
  • But the far from sedate satiric choreography kept them frantically gesticulating.
  • His wild gesticulating conveyed the sense that a calamity had occurred.
  • Their victims had been merely shouting and gesticulating.
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Main Entry: sign
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: motion to another
Synonyms: beckon, express, flag, gesticulate, gesture, indicate, motion, signal, signalize, signify, use sign language, wave
Main Entry: signal
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: indicate; give a sign to
Synonyms: beckon, communicate, flag, flash, gesticulate, gesture, motion, nod, semaphore, sign, signalize, warn, wave, wink
Main Entry: wave
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move back and forth; gesture
Synonyms: beckon, billow, brandish, coil, curl, direct, falter, flap, flourish, flow, fluctuate, flutter, fly, gesticulate, indicate, motion, move to and fro, oscillate, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, seesaw, shake, sign, signal, stir, stream, surge, sway, swell, swing, swirl, swish, switch, tremble, twirl, twist, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, waver, whirl, wield, wigwag, wobble
Main Entry: signalize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gesture
Synonyms: act out, flag, gesticulate, give the high sign, indicate, mime, motion, pantomime, sign*, signal, use one's hands, use sign language, wave
Related Words
Main Entry: sign
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
armorial, characteristic, connotative, curiological, demonstrative, denotable, denotative, diacritical, diagnostic, emblematic, exponential, indelible, indicated, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, jolloped, known by, marked, pantomimic, pathognomonic, pointed, recognizable by, representative, symbolic, symptomatic, typical
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Successive change of place] Motion.
Category: 1. Motion in General
Synonyms:
-nouns
motion, movement, move; going; unrest., stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis., step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit., restlessness (changeableness); mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.
-verbs
be in motion; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;., put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
-adjectives
moving; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless (changeable); nomadic; erratic.
-adverbs
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
-phrases
eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
Antonyms: quiescence
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