Expressive, is an adjective describing nouns like: countenance, drawing and eye
An adjective is a part of speech, that describes a noun. It enriches a sentence by adding an additional information. There are several types of adjectives and different ways of creating them.
This page is assigned to the adjective expressive that describes nouns beginning with approval. Sorting of these words is random. Furthermore the presented vocabulary is divided into five sections, just like our entire website. This particular section refers to General vocabulary. You may wonder what is a difference between Verbsearch and other analogus pages. The goal behind our website is to adjust the search results as close to your needs as possible. This means that for the purposes of a business paper the vocabulary will be slightly different than for law discussion. We hope that this split will allow to find the most correct nouns. But if you are not completely satisfied with the search results, just check out the second category. Notice that the most common words are listed in the general section, but more specific ones you will find in the remaining four categories. Note, that if you want to check other nouns that are linked to the word expressive click on a particular word. However, if you want to learn more about adjectives overall, read the text below.
What exactly is an adjective
Adjective is a word that describes and transforms a noun. This part of speech gives more details about a specific person, a place or a thing. Its role is to enrich a noun. However, it can significantly change the meaning of a described noun.
See examples blow:
• The opposite meaning, adjectives change the meaning of a noun: a thick book vs a short book
• More details, adjectives enrich a noun with detailed, the descriptive information: a late and short summer
• A different meaning, each adjective describes a noun with a different but not opposite meaning: a wild animal or an adult animal
So, in other words, adjective provides details of a state or quality of the described noun. It gathers and presents details about object, size, colour, age, shape, origin and many more.
Creating an adjective
This part of speech is formed in various ways. Some adjectives are created by adding a suffix –able to a verb, eg: flammable. Other consist of a noun and –ful at the end, like cheerful. Some suffixes with examples are listed below.
• - al: seasonal
• - ary: stationary
• - ish: foolish
• - ic: athletic
• - less: meaningless
• - ous: fabulous
• - ive: repetitive
Adjective types
There are several types of adjectives, among others:
• Descriptive:
◦ (size): thin
◦ (color): silver
◦ (opinion): silver
◦ (age): terrible
◦ (shape): 10-year-old
• Quantitative: hexagon
• Nationality: Irish
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Last updated: Oct 17, 2026
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