as in reminiscent
provoking a memory or mental association
the Italian-American restaurant is decorated in a manner evocative of the charming outdoor cafés in Italy
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Recent Examples of evocative
Here is what the judges had to say about it: Enchanting touches of orange leaves, sweet grass, spice, and pepper, evocative of an antique Chesterfield.
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Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
There’s no sound more evocative of summer than that of an old-school ice cream maker’s motor droning its monotonous naaaaaaaa with the backbeat of gas station ice and rock salt grinding and shifting against the spinning ice cream cannister.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
The transparent keycaps, meanwhile, look very nice and feature a typeface that’s evocative of the Cyber moniker.
—Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food
The prose in Nigella Lawson’s revolutionary How to Eat is evocative enough that you will be tempted to read it like a novel.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 7 June 2025
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Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
There’s no sound more evocative of summer than that of an old-school ice cream maker’s motor droning its monotonous naaaaaaaa with the backbeat of gas station ice and rock salt grinding and shifting against the spinning ice cream cannister.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
The transparent keycaps, meanwhile, look very nice and feature a typeface that’s evocative of the Cyber moniker.
—Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food
The prose in Nigella Lawson’s revolutionary How to Eat is evocative enough that you will be tempted to read it like a novel.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evocative
reminiscent
Adjective
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The maneuver is reminiscent of Johnson forcing an out-loud reading of the American Rescue Act in 2021, which at the time sparked backlash from the Democratic majority.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
29 June 2025
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The interior would be reminiscent of the Art Deco designs that were popular in New York.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
28 June 2025
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“Evocative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evocative. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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