Emotive – Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling
(Pronounced ih-moh-tiv)
To remember the definition of the word emotive, use the following mnemonic:
The emojis had a tiff (emotive) – something had aroused intense feeling between them.
Examples of emotive in a sentence
The loss of her pet dog was an emotive subject which she tried to avoid, but memories kept flooding back and she found it hard to concentrate.
His adoption as a small child was an emotive issue for him but his therapist had to bring up the subject to get to the root of his problems.
She expressed her views on animal experimentation in highly emotive language.
