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What is the adjective for gesture?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs gesticulate and gesture which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

gestic
  1. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
  2. Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Without any possible confusion Harald Wolff's artistic research is recognizable: he mixes and associates vague silhouettes in a light badinage, « gestic » of chromatic lines and violence of drawings.”
      “Through such gestic continuities we also witness change and adaptation.”
gestural
  1. Of, pertaining to, or using gestures
  2. (art) Relating to gesturalism
  3. Examples:
    1. “I like to use photorealism, loose and gestural drawing styles, and a combination of the two.”
      “So, to repudiate beige has become a gestural short-hand for adventurism, a high five of look-at-me neophilia.”
      “Its partner on the right shows a taxicab-yellow ground largely obscured by a gestural, gunmetal gray.”
gesticulatory
  1. Of or relating to a gesticulation.
  2. Making frequent gesticulations.
  3. Examples:
    1. “You get this flurry of gesticulatory activity, followed by a raising of the eyebrows and a widening of the eyes as the orator pauses.”
      “Cumberbatch admitted that he's still trying to get to grips with Strange's gesticulatory spell-casting.”
      “Therefore, Woolf is engagingly and illustratively gesticulatory.”
gesticulative
  1. Of, relating to, or using gesticulation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Without using words, participants are invited to engage in gesticulative dialogue.”
      “The athlete uses an assistant to move the ramp into position, giving only verbal or gesticulative cues on where to move the ramp.”
      “The images I create are choreographed, but I allow room for spontaneity, or the gesticulative nature of each individual like an actor within a scene.”
gested
  1. (now rare) Accompanied with gestures; conveyed by gesture.
gesturelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
gesturable
  1. Capable of being represented by gestures.
gestureless
  1. Without the use of gesture.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Two of these gestureless, self-consciously abstract paintings were included in the exhibition, in addition to the works that were representational.”
gesticulated
gesticulating
gestured
gesturing
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