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词汇 gestural
释义 gestural
adjective
uk /ˈdʒes.tʃə.rəl/ us /ˈdʒes.tʃɚ.əl/

gesturaladjective (MOVEMENT)


relating to movements, especially when these express ideas or feelings:
Some of the children spontaneously gave a verbal or gestural response.
The violinist is a vividly gestural performer, articulating the shape of phrases as much with her body as with her bow.
Related word
gesturenoun(MOVEMENT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement
ambulatory
be treading wateridiom
biodynamics
comings
floating
gesturally
locomotion
mobility
motile
motility
motion
movable
movement
passage
pull
rooted
rooted to the spotidiom
sensorimotor
slithery
tread

gesturaladjective (SYMBOLIC ACT)


relating to actions that express feelings or intentions, although they might have little practical effect:
This case is just another example of gestural cultural politics.
This election is evidence of how politics is becoming gestural.
Related word
gesturenoun(SYMBOLIC ACT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability

gesturaladjective (ART)


art specialized
relating to a style of art that is abstract(= representing the idea of something rather than its physical appearance) and is painted with large, free movements rather than small, controlled movements:
From then on his art was characterized by its expansive scale, gestural brushwork, and rich, exuberant palette.
There were echoes of postwar and contemporary gestural abstraction.
The exhibition invites us to examine the breezy, gestural antics of brushwork rather than asking what the pictures mean.
He uses ink and fluorescent paint - sprayed on wildly, splashily gestural.
The paintings are positioned to show the progression of gestural abstraction.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Art history & artistic movements
abstract
abstract expressionism
aesthetic
anti-modern
anti-modernism
cubism
cubist
expressionism
expressionist
expressionistic
modernism
modernist
montage
naturalism
naturalistic
regency
rococo
romantic
romanticism
screen printing
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