DEMONSTRATIVE

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

2.
a.

Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.

3.
a.

Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair. Demonstrative pronoun (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.

4.
n.

A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.