demonstrative adj
1 tending to manifest or express one's feelings easily or unreservedly
2 serving as proof; indicative
3 involving or characterized by demonstration
a demonstrative lecture
4 conclusive; indubitable
demonstrative arguments
5 (Grammar) denoting or belonging to a class of determiners used to point out the individual referent or referents intended, such as this, that, these, and those
Compare →
interrogative →
relative n
6 (Grammar) a demonstrative word or construction
♦
demonstratively adv
♦
demonstrativeness n