1 showing feelings openly, especially feelings of affection:
Some people are more demonstrative than others. * a demonstrative greeting / friendship
2 (grammar) used to identify the person or thing that is being referred to:
'This' and 'that' are demonstrative pronouns.
noun (grammar) a demonstrative pronoun or DETERMINER
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for demonstrative is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is demonstrative a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, demonstrative is tagged as adjective.
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