gesticulative

From gesticulate + -ive.

gesticulative

1. Of, relating to, using, or accompanied by gesticulation; tending to gesticulate.
   • 1843, Frances Milton Trollope, chapter 6, in Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion‎^[1], volume 2, page 125:

     […] Mr. Hargrave related, with much humour, the tragic-comic scene which had been performed in his ball the preceding night, declaring, that though he could not but laugh at the recollection of poor M. Bertrand’s gesticulative despair, it had really affected him very differently at the time, and that, all jesting apart, he was very sorry for him.

   • 1933, Booth Tarkington, chapter 21, in Presenting Lily Mars‎^[2], page 216:

     […] the two younger actors, their heads in juxtaposition, were already murmurous with subdued chords of song, which old Joe seemed desirous of smothering under a gesticulative oratory,

   • 1941, James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men‎^[3], pages 465-466:

     There is an old, not specially funny vaudeville act in which the whole troupe builds up and burlesques a dramatic situation simply by different vocal and gesticulative colorations of the word ‘you.’

   • 1973, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress‎^[4], page 178:

     He was a prickly, gesticulative, arrogant man, full of acidulous wit […]

• gesticulatory

• gesticulate
• gesticulation
• gesture
• gestural