expressive style (n)
style (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def 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
examples all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
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Hypernym communication
Domain of synset - TOPIC language, linguistic communication; art, artistic creation, artistic production; music
Derivationally related form style → stylistic; style → stylist; style → stylize
Derivationally related form style → stylist
Hyponym allegory; analysis; bathos; black humor, black humour; device; eloquence, fluency, smoothness; euphuism; flatness; formulation, expression; grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric; headlinese; jargon; journalese; legalese; manner of speaking, speech, delivery; music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style; officialese; pathos; prose; rhetoric; saltiness, coarseness; self-expression; sesquipedality; terseness; turn of phrase, turn of expression; vein; verboseness, verbosity; writing style, literary genre, genre; poetry
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Derivationally related form stylistic → style; stylist → style; stylize → style
Hyponym communication
Member of this domain - TOPIC art, artistic creation, artistic production; language, linguistic communication; music
Hypernym allegory; analysis; bathos; black humor, black humour; device; eloquence, fluency, smoothness; euphuism; flatness; formulation, expression; grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric; headlinese; jargon; journalese; legalese; manner of speaking, speech, delivery; music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style; officialese; pathos; prose; rhetoric; saltiness, coarseness; self-expression; sesquipedality; terseness; turn of phrase, turn of expression; vein; verboseness, verbosity; writing style, literary genre, genre; poetry
Derivationally related form stylist → style

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