Gesticulate

Quick meaning: Gesticulate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.

Meaning

(intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To say or express through gestures.

Example Sentences

... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength .

[…]the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards."

He's delusional, and obsessed with a girl named Claire, and he says such things as: "I know she loves me, she just doesn't know it yet." And he gesticulates wildly, as though he were a fop in the court of Louis XIV.

A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells.

Word Forms

• gesticulates
• gesticulating
• gesticulated

Synonyms for gesticulate

Depending on context, synonyms include gesture, motion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gesture, motion, pantomime, giggit, glance, wave.

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