gesticulative

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, using, or accompanied by gesticulation; tending to gesticulate.
    — […] Mr. Hargrave related, with much humour, the tragic-comic scene which had been performed in his ball the preceding night, declaring, that though he could not but laugh at the recollection of poor M. Bertrand’s gesticulative despair, it had really affected him very differently at the time, and that, all jesting apart, he was very sorry for him.

词源

Etymology tree
Latin gesticulorbor.
English gesticulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English gesticulative
From gesticulate + -ive.
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