hortative
/'hɔ:tətiv/ Cách viết khác : (hortatory) /'hɔ:tətəri/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Giving strong encouragement; exhorting or urging someone to take a specific course of action. It describes language, speech, or writing that is intended to advise, counsel, or strongly encourage.
Usage and Examples
- Adjective:
- The coach's hortative speech at halftime motivated the team to play harder.
- Her hortative words were aimed at inspiring the volunteers to continue their efforts.
- The document had a hortative tone, urging citizens to participate in the democratic process.
Advanced Usage
- Hortative Mood: In some linguistic analyses, this term can refer to a grammatical mood used for exhorting or encouraging. For example, "Let's go" can be considered a construction in English.
- The sentence "Let us consider the evidence" is in the hortative mood.
Variants and Related Words
- Hortatory (adjective): A direct synonym, meaning "tending or aiming to exhort." It is often used interchangeably with .
- The president's hortatory address called for national unity.
- Exhort (verb): To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something.
- Exhortation (noun): An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.
Synonyms
- Exhortative: Serving to exhort.
- Encouraging: Giving support, confidence, or hope.
- Advisory: Having the function of giving advice.
- Persuasive: Good at persuading someone to do or believe something.
Antonyms
- Discouraging: Causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm.
- Dissuasive: Tending to persuade someone not to take a course of action.
- Prohibitive: Serving to forbid or restrict.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- A call to action: A strong request or exhortation for people to act.
- The conclusion of her report was a powerful hortative call to action.
- To urge strongly: A phrase conveying the core meaning of .
- The activists issued a hortative statement, urging strongly for immediate policy changes.
Adjective
- giving strong encouragement