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evocative

evo·ca·tive

UK/ɪˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/ US/ɪˈvɑkʌtɪv/ rare

adjective

1.

serving to bring to mind

  • “cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note” Wilder Hobson
  • “a campaign redolent of machine politics”
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Origin

From Latin ēvocātīvus (“pertaining to summoning”). By surface analysis, evoke + -ative.

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