expostulative

English

Etymology

From expostulate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

expostulative (comparative more expostulative, superlative most expostulative)

1. Synonym of expostulatory
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 262:

     Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best

Derived terms

• expostulatively