English-Portuguese translations for expressive

• expressivo
  Porém, creio que este relatório não é muito expressivo e que não define o plano claro para a abertura da União Europeia ao Leste de que estávamos à espera. I think, though, that this report is not very expressive, and that it lacks the clear plan for the opening up of the European Union to the East that we were hoping for.
  De qualquer forma, se alguém tomasse a liberdade de o fazer, não bastaria ser expressivo na forma de articular um pensamento erróneo, pois ainda há os Tratados que se impõe respeitar. Moreover, if someone were to take the liberty of doing so, it would not be enough for them to be expressive in voicing a misguided thought, for respect must still be shown for the Treaties.
• significativo
  Este facto em si já é suficientemente significativo. This fact is, in itself, expressive enough.

Definition of expressive

• Effectively conveying thought or feeling
• Any word or phrase that expresses a certain attitude toward or information about the referent
• A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism , variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of

Related words

• expressively
• expressiveness
• inexpressive
• inexpressiveness
• antiexpressive
• expressivement
• expressive power
• expressive aphasia