ejaculative

English

Etymology

From ejaculate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

ejaculative (not comparable)

1. Ejaculatory.
   • 1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, Extract reproduced in 1993, Karl Ortseifen, Winfried Herget, Holger Lamm (editors), Picturesque in the Highest Degree... Americans on the Rhine, page 28,

     We were now so far inland that none of my fellow-passengers had probably ever stood on the wharf of a larger sea-port, for I was the first American they had seen; and the surprise was ejaculative that I was white, and increased to wonder when they learnt that I had made the passage from America to Europe in only twenty days.

   • 2003, James W. William, Relax a Little, Understand a Lot‎^[1], page 85:

     Having erectile and ejaculative potency gives no assurance of orgastic potency. When erectile and ejaculative potency is in evidence, as it seems to be among gays, it seems superficially libelous to speak of potency problems.

   • 2005, Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings‎^[2], page 94:

     […] where Sara Smolinksky's struggle with what she perceives to be her problematic overemotionality becomes a key part of her trajectory toward cultural assimilation and where nearly every page contains an ejaculative “Ach!” or “God!”