expressive style

1. 1.

   a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

   “all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper”

   Synonymsstyle

   Broadercommunication

   Narrowerallegoryanalysisbathosblack humordeviceeloquenceeuphuismflatnessformulationgrandiosity

   language · art · music

Questions about expressive style

What does expressive style mean?

expressive style means "a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period".

What is another word for expressive style?

Close synonyms include style. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expressive style a common word?

expressive style is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.