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| Main Entry: |
gesture/gesticulate
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| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | brandish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flaunt, swing around |
| Synonyms: | come on strong, display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, gesture, parade, raise, shake, show, show off, sport, swing, threaten, throw weight around, trot out, warn, wield |
| Antonyms: | not show |
| Main Entry: | flag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signal |
| Synonyms: | gesture, give a sign to, hail, indicate, motion, salute, warn, wave |
| 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: | gesticulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pantomime |
| Synonyms: | gesture, motion, signal |
| Notes: | gesticulate and gesture are based on Latin gerere 'bear, carry, perform' and gesticulation is more exaggerated than a gesture, often involving flailing; originally, a person's gesture was their 'bearing' or the way they 'carried' themselves |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
| Antonyms: | natural, simple, undramatic |
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| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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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
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